What's going on in Germany?

Everybody knows you're not supposed to look at your Amazon ranking because it doesn't really reflect the sales of your books. Also, everybody knows that it's impossible not to check your Amazon ranking, at least once in a while.

I've come up with a solution. For some reason the German edition of Chasing the Dead is selling respectably, months after publication. Today it was #87 in the horror division, and it's gone as low as five hundred something on the general list. Now of course all of this is just as grossly meaningless to me as the US Amazon listing, and my royalties schedule is different for foreign rights...but it feels good to see those low numbers. And on these bleak late-winter afternoons, isn't that why we check Amazon in the first place?

Bonus -- I can't read the reviews.

Tomorrow: new free fiction.