I think all authors must be obsessed with numbers: sales rank, print runs, royalty percentages, etc. etc. etc. Then there are search rank numbers. I don't know what, if anything, these esoteric indices reveal about sales, but...
On current (as in today!) Amazon searches (search rank, not sales rank) CAFÉ AU LAIT comes up as:
#2 (out of 1,657) - African-American romance
#11 (out of 1,673) - African American romance (without the hyphen)
#2 (out of 201) - Caribbean romance
#32 (out of 31,963) - contem
Published on June 02, 2009 13:27