AMAZON BEST SELLING AUTHOR ... ME

I spent much of the evening with Sandra, enduring the effects of her 5th straight Chemo treatment.

She tapped her laptop. "Roland! You're an Amazon best selling author!

On Amazon's 100 best selling Haunted New Orleans titles you have #7 (THE LEGEND OF VICTOR STANDISH), #8 (BURNT OFFERINGS), #9 (THE RIVAL/victor standish volume 3), and #10 (CREOLE KNIGHTS)!

I told her I had only sold 7 copies of LEGEND, 0 copies of BURNT OFFERINGS and CREOLE KNIGHTS and only 2 copies of THE RIVAL.

I had no idea why Amazon listed me like that. (She doesn't know of my car mishap) so I explained my friends decided to buy my books as a sort of morale-boost.

I told her Amazon was a strange set-up and that seven books bought all at once shot me up the charts. She insisted that this was the start of a huge momentum for my books.

She has so little to be excited about lately that I did not rain on her happiness for me. A happiness that would not have happened except for the generosity and large hearts of you my friends.

The three copies of THE LAST SHAMAN you have bought has placed me #12 on Amazon's 100 best selling Native American fantasy novels. And the joy that brought Sandra for me is truly priceless.

"Are you going to put it on your blog?" she asked me. I said no as that would skew the truth of my books.

She reached up and twisted my nose playfully (kinda),

making me promise I would. She doesn't visit my blog since my white on black messes with her chemo-altered stomach right now.

I offered to change my blog, but she says my black background makes my blog look elegant and my header stand out. She wiggled her fingers, threatening my nose if I changed my lay-out.

I like my nose as it is so my black background is here to stay. And here I am, keeping my word to Sandra about me ... ah ... sorta being ... Jeez ... I promised, so

Despite the numbers under thirty sold, here I am AN AMAZON BEST SELLING AUTHOR.

Now, I can tell Sandra I kept my word. I feel like a President juggling the figures of the economy on a STATE OF THE UNION speech!
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On a separate note:

THANK ALL OF YOU MY FRIENDS FOR BUYING MY BOOKS TO HELP ME OUT.

It means more than words than can say. It makes me feel not quite so alone. I am moved beyond my ability to express myself at your generosity!

D.G.Hudson asked what order to read my books in:

1.) GHOST WRITERS IN THE SKY (my how to write manual written by my ghostly friends)

2.) RITES OF PASSAGE and its sequel, ADRIFT IN THE TIME STREAM
(the 1853 fantasy Titanic with Samuel McCord, their prologues and epilogues narrated by William Faulkner in the New Orleans of the Roaring Twenties.)

3.) FRENCH QUARTER NOCTURNE and its sequel, CREOLE KNIGHTS
(Set in Katrina-devastated New Orleans with Samuel McCord, Father Renfield, and the cast of characters from Meilori's.)

4.) THE LEGEND OF VICTOR STANDISH
{Victor's first meeting with Samuel McCord, Meilori's, Alice Wentworth the Victorian ghoul and more supernatural enemies than he thought existed.}

5.) UNDER A VOODOO MOON
{Victor's 2nd adventure and first meeting with evolved raptors, the ghost of President John Adams, and 1st trip back to 1834 New Orleans. Victor meets the Jill the Ripper of the French Quarter, Marie Laveau, and the voodoo demigod, Legba.}

6.)THE RIVAL
{Victor's 3rd adventure. See Victor at age 7 surviving a zombie-ravaged Detroit. Watch him return to the New Orleans of 1834. Witness the Menage la Trois of Death. See him duel with President Andrew Jackson under The Oaks. And view the last night of Troy through Victor's eyes.}

7.) END OF DAYS
{Alice Wentworth, Samuel McCord, and all of my assorted heroes fight Ragnarok in Katrina-devestated New Orleans - with the help of the shade of the supposedly dead Victor Standish.}

8.) THE LAST SHAMAN, CALL ME TOMBS, THE BEAR WITH TWO SHADOWS:
{Three novels with my Native American fantasy heroes who also star in END OF DAYS:
Wolf Howl, Toomey Starks, and Hibbs, the cub with no clue who grows to become the bear with 2 shadows.}

9.) BRING ME THE HEAD OF McCORD! :
A collection of short stories, detailing how a 15 year old Samuel McCord started his eerie journey into the supernatural, Victor and Alice's first Christmas, Hibbs' run in with River Face, and why McCord lives in New Orleans. Also the first adventure of Blake Adamson, the clone of Jesus. And a story starring Fallen, the last fae, as Evil finds itself in the odd role of protector of the planet from an alien invasion.

10.) BURNT OFFERINGS:
A collection of short stories with Lucanus, the cursed Greek physician and three tales of McCord following the events of CREOLE KNIGHTS. The last beginning with McCord awakening in a morgue -- when the evening starts like that, you just know the rest of it is going to suck!

11.) THE LAST FAE, LOVE LIKE DEATH, THE PATH BACK TO DAWN, BLACK ROSES IN AVALON, and LAST EXIT TO BABYLON:

The five novel saga of Fallen, the last fae, and Blake Adamson, the clone of Jesus, who try to find some refuge for their doomed love in their battle against the infamous DayStar -- my supernatural Hannibal Lector.

12.) LET THE WIND BLOW THROUGH YOU:
A Noir Native American Romeo and Juliet. A disgraced Lakota psychologist returns to the town of his birth to fight for the soul of the white woman he has always loved. She is a dying crime lord, fending off the wolves who sense blood. Can he salvage what remains of her life before her enemies kill them both?

13.) BLOOD WILL TELL:
A telepathic rare blood courier finds himself the lone survivor of an alien invasion of the Earth ... by intelligent blood. When everything and everyone he has loved is gone, is there anything else for which to live?


Sandra thinks of the two of us as Calvin & Hobbes, though she refuses to say which of is Calvin. I depressingly think I know.