The numbers game

Publicity is everything, so this week's small and not completely accurate review in the Chester Chronicle is very welcome. Yesterday evening saw the book rise to the dizzy heights of about 9,600th in the Amazon best-sellers chart. It has dropped back a bit since, but that's the first time it has gone below 5 figures. A rush of sales in Canada saw Amazon.ca put it a 222nd - amazing! The rush has obviously subsided since and it is down to about 500th, but better than 120,000th which it was last week.
On a different note the weather has seen my Laverda polished up and the Ducati given its first wash in about 18 months, and both are now taxed and roadworthy again - I seem less confident as a motorcyclist than I was, but caution is not a bad thing and being aware of one's limitations never hurt.
Off to the London Book Fair a week tomorrow so I can stand in awe of the well-connected literary aristocracy. Well maybe not in awe, maybe more some degree of jealousy, but such is life.