Amazon Gone Wild

Well, this is bizarre.  And it's not what you think.  I can assure you, it's not what I was thinking.

For a quick background recap, though:  as people here may have heard, perhaps offhandedly, I’ve been doing a bunch of promotions this week with the book The Wild Roses.  And in conjunction with them, I put the book on sale and dropped the price to $0.99.  I had a fairly good day over the weekend – not massive sales at all, but its ranking jumped, as I mentioned, from about #90,000 to #3,330.  That’s paltry in the Real World, but still the leap was nice.  My hope was to get on a “Hot List,” which are bestsellers for new books.  Alas, the only eligible books for that are ones on sale for 30 days or less, and it’s a few days past that.  Literally, 31 days.  Sigh.

But then last night, I saw something on the Amazon book page and thought, “Wait, no, that’s not possible,” so I clicked on the link.

This is the page for Amazon Bestsellers in the Kindle ebook category of Women’s Fiction –

Excuse me for being bewildered, but...Good lord!!  The book is freaking number #70.  Not on the new book Hot List – but…overall!

Too, too, too bizarre.  I’m not complaining, mind you.

Whether it plummets after the promotions end, or whether it can build on this as a foundation, I'll find out soon enough.  The $0.99 promotion lasts through this Friday, so we'll see.  But at the very least, as King Arthur sings in Camelot -- for one brief shining moment...