Amazon appears to have gone totally screwy...

This month Amazon finally did something right, they altered their web reports so that we authors can see how many sales we have made and how many promotional/price matched downloads have occurred.

Yay! I thought to myself. Only weird stuff it going on. My book Forgotten Soul is price matched to be free and as far as I can tell this has not changed at all. Every time I look it is still 0.00. However, on my report I have had 28 sales in the US and 10 sales in the UK over the last two days as well as all the free downloads.

These "buys" seem to be happening at random times along with the free downloads, but not at the same time as free downloads, hence I don't think they're the same ones being counted twice.

1) I have no idea how this could happen.
2) If it's even real or a glitch because there is no other way to check my sales.
3) If it's a glitch how it is affecting my book ranking, which in turn affects my normal sales. The book has dropped out of the top 100 on the US site or just pops in at 100 occasionally when it was sitting at around #65 all the time, which is not good. One or two book downloads actually make a lot of difference in ranking.

I've sent them a support email and we shall see what they say. This is most frustrating.

It's read an eBook week :)

Did you know it was Read an eBook Week? Well it is and in honour of this many of our books on Smashwords are discounted. We have offers from 50% off to 100% off depending on the title.

How to get the money off.
1)Click the individual title and visit the Smashwords page.
2)Check the right col to see the discount code (same as the one next to the titles below).
3)Click buy the book and use the discount code on checkout.

( Books with 50% off )

( Books with 100% off )

( Books that are free all the time )

Books that are not discounted, but are still cheap

Forbidden Soul (Book 2 of the Soul Reader Series) by Tasha D-Drake 99c
John's life used to be risky, but it had been simple. Allowing vampires to suck his blood had never been safe, but now there is Michael and having a vampire who actually cares about him is complicated. Michael is urging him to reconnect with the family he lost when kidnapped. His recent past also doesn't want to die quietly and is making his life less than easy and it's about to become deadly.

Birthdays :)

Happy Birthday to:
luesietjuh and tigerblak/tigerblak for today,
starfallvaltash, xstopthworldx and rainbowxgeek for tomorrow,
anansay, wandering_legy , kat_lair, blue_eye/blue_eye and cyberdigi for the 7th,
luthien, kate_tur, sashimi_salad, magic_in_memory, selene_15 and deidreinthesky for the 8th,
mio_83 and opalsong for the 9th,
circumchance, vcnielson and janae_twilight for the 10th and
the_plotbunny, marfahz, coming_quietly, chuffed4angst and maab_connor for the 11th

Many Happy Returns to you all.