Made a bunch of deals with people who didn't come through - said they'd download my book, but didn't, put their book on mine in a train but didn't download it, etc. What a bunch of shysters. I'm saving my comments for later; I have nothing good to say about this crowd now.

Goodreads is saving every review I make, which is every one. I put them all on both Amazon and Goodreads, and it's figured out and connected automatically, and I'm not sure I like that. For one thing I give way too many fives; you can see that at a glance. Maybe I should find a few suckers and give them threes, just so there's a little more variation in my table.

Review after review, there are hundreds of them. It's almost like Goodreads is a record-keeping service. I haven't quite figured out what happens if you say different things on GR and Amazon, or even if you have different stars marked. Do they notice? Do they care? I actually removed a few of my reviews. I don't want to be seen giving some people fives, when they have basically blown me off. I care more about this on GR than Amazon, for some reason. On Amazon it seems like it counts more; that's where the world sees your rating and holds you up in comparison. But really if people have wronged me, I don't want association with them in either place.

Just getting cranky. Tired of people putting me down.

Ups and downs on the read-marketing circuit. Here's the up: with Japanese Poetry & Haiku, a fairly easy category, epiphany coup haiku was number seven today. Today only - I had to look fast, as tonight it's 41 already. But hey, sevy,en is not bad. If certain people check the top ten ever, or if those people checked it this morning, there I was.

Actually, my luck was good in general, or has been lately. I'm getting a lot of books read, as I have a reputation. Even if it's not people's favorite read, they at least know it'll be ok, so they jump on these trains; they read mine; I read someone's, someone reads theirs; it all works out.

On the downside you have people who will sit on your book for a few days. They grab it and put it on their TBR list (as it's called) and then it sits there for a while. You have no control. You wait for a pageread or a ratings bump that never shows up, or takes days. By the time you see either you've forgotten what you'd been hoping for, or you'd moved on in some other way. I have an occasional sale that the zon doesn't pick up, doesn't give me a ratings bump for; I'm left wondering if it's in some other category, like library sale or expanded distribution or some such thing. You sit here waiting for a score that never comes.

It's the price of addiction - in my case, to ratings.