The Lady Soldier is an amazon fast seller!!!

I posted this post first at 1.57pm this afternoon in deep shock / surprise because I'd looked at The Lady Soldier on amazon.co.uk and it had a sales ranking of 1,268! What?! Shock that it had a sales ranking at all - it's only just gone up on amazon after there was some delay with Robert Hale's fiction catalogue - and double shock to see it with such a high ranking.

Research into amazon sales ranking showed that the top 10,000 sellers are updated hourly on past 24 hours sales. Ok.

Then I remembered I'd e-mailed some close friends yesterday to let them know the book was up on amazon now. And a friend had e-mailed me back to say that he'd ordered it. The first sale I was sure and I e-mailed him to say so. Thanks, old friend! :)

Then author Kate Walker was kind enough to inform me that Thursday and Fridays are slow amazon sales days - hence just a few sales can produce these spikes.

In the meantime I e-mail Michelle. Maybe it's an April Fool but she has to see the amazon ranking... quick! It's a mirage maybe, any moment it might disappear.

Now, I am at work trying to do a million and one things before the week draws to a close, and the next thing is that the sales ranking has gone up to 835!

So this is one day in the UK on one online bookseller, but my book, based on pre-orders has made it into the top thousand amazon fast sellers. What?!

And then Michelle reminded me that the Newcastle Journal's Culture magazine came out this week with their interview of Michelle Styles, co-author of The Lady Soldier, and also the competition to win copies. Can't wait to read the article!

So... the spike explained. I think.