Humbled by Amazon

So, you all know I'm excited that my book is up on Amazon.com. And thank you so much for all the nice comments, you've been terrific!

The first day I noticed it there, I emailed my parents, and my mother immediately went and bought 10 copies. She knew full well she'll receive mutliple free copies, but she wanted to be the first Amazon order. I think, thanks to her, I 'debuted' on Amazon's sales rank list somewhere around #175,500. I'm down to the 600's. If anyone ends up buying the book (and, really, don't until I find out how you can get your free copy from Bayer) I hope they all buy it on the same day so I can acheive Amazon Sales Rank Euphoria.

I don't know how Amazon calculates that number, it's some magic secret formula (I'm guessing. I like the idea of that.) At the end of each day, the system notes where a book finished. On a book listing, you can see the current ranking and yesterday's ranking. If you click on the number next to 'yesterday', you can see what kind of company you are keeping.

Yesterday, I finished #565,643 in Books. One place behind, "Flushed With Pride: The Story of Thomas Crapper"

I kid you not.

It's good to be me ;)