Thanks
in part to a great review of The Leftovers Handbook by The Frugal Queen my sales have improved dramatically over the last few days. I check once or twice (or eighteen or thirty
five times) a day to see how it is doing and sometimes it makes me grin. This, for instance …
Me,
Suzy Bowler, ahead of Delia! Not really
of course; it’s due to how the books have been categorised. The Leftovers Handbook is under Books > Food & Drink > Reference & Gastronomy > Gastronomy. Actually it has been as high as number 4 in
this category and is at 8 today but looks so much more impressive with Delia
beside it don’t you think?
It
does mean, however, that I can rightfully claim to have been in the Top 100 Gastronomy
books for quite a few days now!
It
was recently brought home to me how important categorisation is after my lovely
agent Jen Christie managed to get the Kindle version of The Leftovers Handbook re-categorised
under Gastronomy and sales rank improved considerably – something to bear very
much in mind when self-publishing on Amazon.
This isn't cheating at all; it’s making life easier for possible purchasers to find
the information they are looking for which will, naturally, boost sales. This is why my book features nowhere
under Books > Food
& Drink > Food
Writers > Delia
Smith!
In
other news
In
case you are wondering about how our BT Fiasco is going – the matter is
now in the hands of The Chairman’s office who were sadly confused and in fact
placed a new order on our behalf which we didn’t want. They did cancel it quite efficiently after I
pointed the error out and I think started to understand that at the moment all
we want is the reinstatement of our old number.
(Yes, we will need more work later but that can take place months from
now after we have rallied a bit!)
We don’t have our number back yet; it’s been something like 10 days since the Chairman’s office took the case over and I would have thought returning our original number, which is not in use by anyone else, would be a piece of you know what. They’ve managed to change it twice without too much trouble, or our consent!
We don’t have our number back yet; it’s been something like 10 days since the Chairman’s office took the case over and I would have thought returning our original number, which is not in use by anyone else, would be a piece of you know what. They’ve managed to change it twice without too much trouble, or our consent!
