The Mission Continues!

We've succeeded in getting "A Summer Wedding", my very first published short story up to a great ranking at Amazon.com (best yet was #4,667).

Let's see if we can't push this even further and make it into the TOP 1000!!!

Some News and Upcoming Interview!

First of all, I just want to let everyone know that "Una Boda de Verano", the Spanish Language version of "A Summer Wedding" has hit the "eBooks en Espanol" bestseller list at Barnes and Noble.  It is currently #40 (out of about 1100 titles).  I'm absolutely thrilled!

Also, "5" is hanging around #23 on the eBook Short Story Bestseller List at Waterstones.com.  With "A Summer Wedding" at #10, I'm hoping that I can have two titles in the Top 20 this week.

Finally, this week, I will be posting an interview with fellow Untreed Reads author, Lesley Diehl, whose story "Murder with All the Trimmings" is available as a stand-alone story or as a part of the Thanksgiving-themed mystery anthology, "The Killer Wore Cranberry".

Stay tunned!

Happy Thanksgiving! Here's some exciting updates...

First of all, "A Summer Wedding" is still holding strong at Waterstones.com, but look out...here comes "5".  It has now moved up to the #28 on the eBook Short Story Bestseller List.

But, I have some new and exciting stuff to report.  The Spanish Language version of "A Summer Wedding", titled "Una Boda de Verano" is currently at #37 on the Barnes & Noble "eBooks en Espanol" bestseller list for fiction.  This is especially exciting as this is the first title for Untreed Reads that has been translated into Spanish.  So glad that it is doing so well!

I hope all of you have a wonderful Thanksgiving...and stay tuned...an author interview with Lesley Diehl is coming up next week!

My New Story, "The Annex", has been released! (and some other tidbits)

Hey everyone!  I hate to bump Neil's fabulous guest-blog from the top of the heap, but I have to do a little shameless self-promotion.

My latest work of fiction, and my longest short-story to date (weighing in at 16+ pages), "The Annex", has been released by Untreed Reads.  It is an office "dramedy"!

Quick, everyone go check it out for the low-low price of $1.99 at the Untreed Reads Store.

A couple of other items I would like to report.

#1:  "A Summer Wedding" still continues to do very well in the UK.  It is currently at #9 on the Waterstones.com eBook Short Story Bestseller List, and is #112 on the eBook General Fiction Bestseller List.  I'm happy with that.

#2:  "5" has really started to pick up in the UK.  It recently jumped from around #200 to #38 on the Waterstones.com eBook Short Story Bestseller List.  This means one of two things to me.  Either people are discovering "5" entirely independently of "A Summer Wedding", or they liked "A Summer Wedding" enough to give "5" a try.  I sincerely hope it is the latter.

#3:  "Una boda de verano", the Spanish Language version of "A Summer Wedding" has been released globally.  I am really interested to see how well this does overseas.  It has already made some sales in the US and UK.

Stay tuned, everyone.  On Tuesday, November 23, 2010, I will be posting an interview with Benson Lott, author of "Pumpkin", available from Untreed Reads.  It's gonna be GREAT!

Best-seller List Update - 10/22/2010

For today, "A Summer Wedding" is holding strong at the #5 spot on the Waterstones eBook Short Story Bestseller List.  At times, I have considered the idea that they don't update this very often, and so I am just kidding myself that I have stayed on the bestseller list for nearly three months, but today I noticed that two of the items in the top 4 had switched places.  So, now I am confident that people are still buying "A Summer Wedding".

By the way, I would like to offer my congratulations to my fellow Untreed Reads Author, Wade J. McMahan, for holding the #1 spot on this list for quite some time, with his mystery "Bite This!".  Way to go, my friend (whom I've never met).

Also, yesterday, I noticed that at W. H. Smith's (another UK retailer), I am #25 on their eBook short story bestseller list (out of 671 entries...puts me in the top 4%...not too shabby).

Stay tuned for more updates on the best-seller list.

One last thing for today:  Untreed Reads released the Spanish language version of "A Summer Wedding".  Recently, Untreed Reads starting using Barnes and Noble's pubIt method of posting books for sale, on a trial basis.  It turns out that the first book that sold using the new pubIt method was "Una Boda de Verano".  What's more?  It got a 5-star rating.  How about that?

Waterstones.com Best-Seller List Update (10/20/2010)

First of all, as I type the date above, I realize there a strange, semi-palindromic symmetry to it (ten-twenty-twenty-ten).  Of course I would notice meaningless crap like that.

Anyway, on this day, at Waterstones.com, "A Summer Wedding" is still #5 on the short-story eBook bestseller list, and has worked its way down to #84 on the Fiction eBook Bestseller list.  By the way, I'm not at all upset by #84, since there are over 18,000 fiction eBooks available at Waterstones.  I guess that puts me in the top 0.5%...

...and that ain't bad.