Amazturbation and Other Perils of Publishing

When my first book, My Hands Came Away Red, was published, I fell prey to an addiction that afflicts many authors at some point during their publishing career. It’s a behaviour I now call amazturbation – obsessively checking your own Amazon ranking to see how your book is stacking up sales-wise against the hundreds of thousands of other books that Amazon sells.

I visited Amazon to check the rise and fall of this number first thing in the morning and last thing at night.

I checked it when I was feeling glum and when I was feeling all right.

I checked it at work and I checked it home. I even checked it on my phone.

I checked that number at breakfast and I checked it at lunch.

I checked that number a whole, whole bunch!

My Amazon addiction started the way most addictions do, with a rush …read the rest of this post on Chip MacGregor’s blog.

I’m thrilled to be guest posting on Chip MacGregor’s blog today. Chip is the president of MacGregor Literary Agency, and my agent. His blog was recently named one of the best writing websites for writers by Writers Digest Magazine – #10 on their list of 101 best sites. So jump on over and check my piece on amazturbation and other perils of publishing, then stay and browse around.