Today I was photographed for an upcoming interview that will appear in my hometown newspaper, The Springfield
News-Sun. I was nervous. As I've mentioned here before, I'm always nervous when it comes to getting my picture taken as I usually look sleepy, high, or constipated. The News-Sun's photographer, inspired by the fact that my book is a mystery, decided taking pictures of me in a dark room would look, well, mysterious. So there I was with a strange man alone in a dark room posing for pictures. He kept telling me to give him my serious author face. Um. . . I don't have a serious author face. I should have played devil's advocate by asking him to demonstrate what he meant. But, I didn't. I was a good girl. Well, as good as you can be closed up in a dark room with a strange man ; ). Anyway, he seemed satisfied as I stared intense and unsmiling into the camera. He shot several pictures that amazingly enough looked great AND mysterious! But, in some of them I look like I have ten chins. Now, how much do you want to bet those are the ones that get used? I'll post a link to the article when it runs.
People keep asking me how my book is doing saleswise. Despite the fact that I check my
Amazon ranking hourly, and call
Ingram book distributor daily, I have no idea what to tell them because I have no idea myself. And what do those sales rankings at Amazon really mean anyway? There's a good discussion, about just how little Amazon sales count towards an authors total sales, with an excellent breakdown of a bestselling thriller author's sales, going on over at Sarah Weinman's
blog. Apparently
Walmart.
Costco, and
Target account for more book sales than most people realize! Who knew?