The True Blue Iron Lady | Jennifer Kathleen Gibbons | Blog Post | Red Room

Needless to say, it’s been an exciting couple of days since my ebook came out (Which you can get here) I’ve sold several copies, people have been sending lovely notes, it’s been going well. But I’ve become one of those people I swore I’d never become: checking my sales statistics.  I’m not on Amazon/Barnes and Noble yet (On Smashwords you have to go through an approval process before they send your work out to other online bookstores) So I’ve become obsessive compulsive about checking my stats reports on Smashwords. Look! I sold a copy! People are looking at it! Why aren’t they buying? Whenever I saw authors complain about their amazon rankings on twitter/facebook, I’d think “Oh, stop being a drama queen.”  I am so sorry I thought that. I know now what they go through. Because you can’t.stop.checking. The ego is saying “Come on! Just check one more time!…

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