I sat in LiveWire Cafe with my friend Laura on Sunday morning and a guy in line for coffee spotted Men Are Easy on the table. He picked it up. Laura said, “She wrote it.” He asked to buy it. I sold it to him for $5 and asked him to comment on the site as part of the deal. He said that he would.
Men who love their women seem to make up a large untapped market. I can see them thinking, “Maybe, just maybe, someone is going to help her understand me.”
The revealing of a tinge of desperation and the glimmer of hope is so sweet.
Am I marketing to the wrong group?
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I woke up this morning and it was like Christmas. I couldn’t wait to check the Amazon number. The first ranking was 176,480 . Last night before going to bed we checked it: 187,138.
The algorithm Amazon uses to determine ranking is proprietary–that means secret–but people have figured out some of their methods. Greenleaf Book Group’s blog has a great article with links.
The top 10,000 are ranked every hour and those ranked between 10,000-100,000 are calculated every 24 hours. But Men Are Easy was just reranked 3 times in 24 hours so there must be an exception for books that are completely new. Somehow a new book with hardly any sales is ranked higher than a long-term seller. Something to do with the sales trajectory and rates of sales.
This is too fun. Now I want to buy a copy of my own book every hour or so for the next couple of days just to see what’s going to happen. And then buy 5 of them in one hour and see what happens. But that’s cheating and I won’t see the miracle of what really is happening.
Buy one! Let me know and we can track it!
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Somebody out there bought my book! Wow!
Yesterday the rank was “none.” Life’s good.
Tune in for a daily accounting.
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It’s up! Men Are Easy is on Amazon for preorders!
The final proofs went to the printer on Monday. Pub date is March, 2007. That’s when it’s available for sale in the book stores and online. I’ll have an e-version up in another month or so.
Wow.
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Arianna Huffington, single woman with two daughters, alive and well in L.A., blogs Fearless Voices: featuring a fiction writer with three autistic children, a gay woman raising a boy, an Iraqi woman writing about war, an award-winning reporter turned nursing mom blogger, a single mom with the boyfriend moving in, on and on.
Who the hell am I? A housewife on the fringe, living in privilege in one of the most beautiful places in the world. My big challenge: My husband wants to start a lychee farm in Australia or spend a year doing Africa in a Land Rover. I want to move to L.A. and write. A stalemate in the design space. Not in the same league as having 3 autistic children and surviving war zones.
But life on Maui’s far from perfect. I saw early on, when my children were little, that life on Maui was unsustainable for far too many people. Behind the insecticide-soaked, Disneyland-perfect resorts are real people: soccer moms, struggling immigrants, crystal meth addicts, neurotic seekers of wisdom, dentists, surfer dudes, retired plantation workers who make quarterly trips to the Californian in Vegas. Schools, health care, policing, and government can’t keep up with needs.
We have problems that can’t be solved with the systems in place. It has to come from somewhere else. And that’s what I’m all about. Read the rest »
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