Um, wtf?

Can a person laugh, cry and throw up all at the same time? I'm thinking it would be a messy affair, but that's what I am truly about to do. Somehow, some way, Amazon put What the Dead Fear up as a free download. I would have done that originally (it was 99 cents there) but they don't offer that option for the Kindle Direct Publishing, a fact that I have lemented on more than one occasion.

I don't really log on to check my sales very often because I figured out early on that doing so causes me unnecessary stress. I just keep doing what I do with the writing and the marketing. I logged on today, and my numbers were looking pretty good and I got to a line for What the Dead Fear that read 2434 copies were sold at $0. Uh, what?

So I pulled up the product page and saw this little Christmas at the end of May miracle.

Not only that, I'm on the effing best seller list. When I checked, it was number 20 in the Kindle store.

I have a Bestseller rank.

I.

have.

a.

bestseller.

rank.

It's just for the freebie, but you know what? I don't fricking care. This is so freakishly amazing for me this happened.

So how did it happen? Honestly, I have no idea. What the Dead Fear is available pretty much everywhere but Amazon (ebook stores) for free. I wrote it with the intention it would be free.

Amazon has a "Report a lower Price" link, so maybe that was somehow involved. I checked Smashwords and those download numbers didn't shoot up, but sometimes it takes a while for them to update their numbers.

I turned on the laptop to work on some editing, but I might have a difficult time focusing now.

Does this mean I can add Bestselling Author to the resume? I'm thinking, yes.
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