We ride by waves that you ought to try

[sovay]

Today contained a surprising amount of running around, mostly because the MBTA all but literally fell over. Tomorrow will contain even more running around, but in that case it's because spatch and I are taking the train to New York so that I can be interviewed either very late on Wednesday night or very early on Thursday morning on WBAI's Hour of the Wolf. Tune in and listen to me read and answer questions! If I have to live with this gutting insomnia, I'm going to make it work for me.

I don't understand what governs Amazon rankings, but earlier this evening Forget the Sleepless Shores was hovering at #136,392 overall but #82 for "Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Books," which made me happy. I don't want to drive myself crazy, but of course now I want to know how it gets to #1.

I really enjoyed this review of a Bob Fosse film festival, especially the descriptions of Damn Yankees (1958), Cabaret (1972), and Sweet Charity (1969).

I have seen some movies I would like to write about, but see above under gutting insomnia.

Comments

[a_reasonable_man]

A cousin of mine, the author of 8 books, whose latest book he self-published on Amazon (that way, he gets 75% of the cover price on each sale), tells me that a key to rising in the rankings is to get a lot of five-star ratings. Come on, Taaffe fans, get to it!

Then there's Amazon advertising, which gets the book bumped up the search rankings for keywords, or to be displayed next to similar books. My cousin, who's advertising his own book, tells he only pays when someone actually clicks.

[sovay]

a key to rising in the rankings is to get a lot of five-star ratings. Come on, Taaffe fans, get to it!

Fingers crossed!

(I don't know if I can game Amazon advertising. I may just ignore that part.)