Feeling like Forrest Gump

still standing

Feeling a bit like Forrest Gump after Hurricane Carmen.

Thiswas my first Christmas as a self-publisher.I went in blind. BecauseI love Christmas,Ioffered my short story, Checkout Girl, for free and reduced the price of Pause to Rewind to 99c.I did not expect sales to fall.

I had not taken into account amazon’s Christmas promotions – wherethey slash the prices of high profile bestsellers. It was like sailing into a hurricane. All I could do was wait for it to pass and hope I was sti...