Yes, that's right -- The Morgue and Me is now selling enough copies to get ranked on one of Amazon's best-seller lists. As you may know, Amazon keeps lists of the 100 most popular titles in many different categories and subcategories of books. For instance, there is a list for "books > teen novels." And a list for "books > teen novels > mysteries."
You may have figured that the The Morgue and Me, my teen mystery novel, appears on that last list. Not quite.
The Morgue and Me--I'm proud to announce--currently sits at #34 in this category:
Books > children's books > history & historical fiction > United States > colonial & revolutionary
Awwww yeah.
Don't get too wrapped up in the fact that The Morgue and Me is not set in colonial times, has nothing to do with the revolutionary war, and is in fact not a piece of historical fiction. What you should be getting wrapped up in this this: even with those handicaps, I have blown right past books like Pocohontas: Young Peacemaker and Traitor: The Case of Benedict Arnold.
So I'm sitting at #34 for now (and actually, the Kindle version of The Morgue and Me is up at #32), but now that I've tasted success, I want more. I'm setting my sights on the top ten. I urge you to spread the word about The Morgue and Me, so it passes And Then What Happened, Paul Revere (#20) and its ilk like they're standing still.
I'm depending on you. You, readers of this blog, are like my Minutemen. Do it for your country, or at least for The Morgue and Me.
It's time to compete with the big boys: I'm looking at you, Squanto, Friend of the Pilgrims (#8).
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