Holy Cats! Vicki and I made The New York Times bestseller list!!!

[Chris Northern]

That's brilliant! The times they are a-changing. (no pun intended, honest).

[tonyaplank]

Wow, that's so awesome! Congratulations to you both!

But why are they still not including Amanda? Because Vicki published with CreateSpace, as did Amanda. Do these people just not know anything about CreateSpace, or are they intentionally keeping Amanda off the list? Maybe she's received so much press already that they know she's self-published and are on the lookout... It's just weird.

Anyway, I'm thrilled two authors have now made it. Hopefully they'll soon realize how devoid of sense their rule against including self-published books is, and apparently how hard it is for them to enforce!

[Victorine]

Wow, that's so awesome! Congratulations to you both!

But why are they still not including Amanda? Because Vicki published with CreateSpace, as did Amanda. Do these people just not know anything about CreateSpace, or are they intentionally keeping Amanda off the list? Maybe she's received so much press already that they know she's self-published and are on the lookout... It's just weird.

Anyway, I'm thrilled two authors have now made it. Hopefully they'll soon realize how devoid of sense their rule against including self-published books is, and apparently how hard it is for them to enforce!

I have no clue as to why Amanda and John Locke are not on that list.  They both are outselling me.

I'm wondering if I made it on the list by accident.  Maybe someone was drunk when they put the list together. 

Vicki

[Debra Burroughs]

I have no clue as to why Amanda and John Locke are not on that list.  They both are outselling me.

I'm wondering if I made it on the list by accident.  Maybe someone was drunk when they put the list together. 

Vicki

I'm sure no one was drunk or did it by accident.  I'm so very happy for you, Vicki!  Great job!

[Dana Taylor]

Congrats--

Everytime I troll the top sellers on Kindle--you and Vicki are always there! We knew you when.

Dana Taylor

[MrPLD]

I'm wondering if I made it on the list by accident.  Maybe someone was drunk when they put the list together. 

Well you're there now, no going back, even if you tried you probably couldn't put this genie back in the bottle, struggling against it would likely make it grow bigger with infamy.

Paul.

[SHauzelSailo]

Wow, wow, again wow. Congratulations to you Nancy, and also Vicki.
I am so happy that you did, self pubished/independent authors did.
I am a great fan of independent authors.

I came to know about you when Sharlow post this thread on authonomy http://www.authonomy.com/forums/threads/72065/two-selfpublished-authors-make-it-to-the-n-y-times-best-seller-list/
Yes, I was very very happy and It encouraged me a lot as I have great goals and I was stronger than ever when I read that on authonomy.
I have great goals.

So unfair that NYT exclude self published authors.
But maybe they are changing to become fair that they begin by including both of you.
Let's pray that they are fair.

(... I realize others deserve to be there (and more than me) and I'm sorry they are not. )
When you said this, you show you really deserved it by the grace of God.

Is there any special thing that you do to get on the NYT list and rank on Amazon? Would you share us what you do, so that we may also get high sales and rank, and also on the list? Or, any tips?
I believe it will help all of us if you share us your experiences, what you do to succeed.

God bless you more and also all the others, anyway.
S. Hauzel Sailo