Take Delight in Small Accomplishments

I am so thrilled.  Not Low Maintenance has been chugging away all month and today it reached its highest ranking ever.

• Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #3,763 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
  • #17 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Mystery & Thrillers > Thrillers > Legal
  • #34 in Books > Mystery & Thrillers > Thrillers > Legal
  • #100 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Humor

This is the first time I've broken into the humor category.  (People do say I write funny but in real life, most people say I have no sense of humor.  In reality, I have the same sense of humor while walking around but most people are too flatfooted to get it.  Sorry, there's no point in not telling the truth at this point.)

For the last 2 weeks its been Amanda Hocking everywhere you go.  She's had success that's just unbelievable, right?  I don't want you getting all despondent and compare your sales to hers.  Or King Joe.  It'll only make you feel bad.

I had a contract to write a book for Simon & Schuster with a psychic I knew.  Don't ask for further illumination or stories, it was a big fat mess and negatively impacted my career for years.  Anyway LadyMoon had a guided imagery thing where you would drive to the ocean and the point was to get as much water as you could because it represented prosperity.  It was kind of interesting to hear people say they drove up in their Beetle and and filled a bucket, while other people drove up in a tanker.  Still others didn't get the point of the exercise at all and were still stuck back at the house wondering about a storage facility or something.  The whole thing about the world is that abundance is truly unlimited.  If X runs out someone will invent something to replace it provided there aren't people clutching to lack and preventing innovation.

So don't feel bad about your sales if your work hasn't caught on yet.  Rejoice that there's a great market and someone achieved such success.  There is a world full of readers and lots of them speak English.  Indie Ebooks are so affordable, they're like a pack of gum or a huge, give you a headache it's so big Snickers bar.  There's plenty of success out there for everyone.

Do your best work.