. . . on Amazon of my collection Fourteen Western Stories:

Great story-telling

There is language well-used here, and humor, sex, bravery, honor, shame and surprise.

In an old form, stories of and in The West, there is a modern honest appreciation of men and women (what women!) and the trouble they get into when they meet and mingle. And the pleasure that can be found even in a rough and unforgiving world.

Fonvielle’s story-telling makes it hard to stop reading, true, but don’t hurry through these . . . stories. There are only so many and you should make them last.

Amazon offers something close to a million titles that can be bought for the Kindle. Each one has a sales rank, determined by a formula Amazon hasn’t disclosed, except that it’s a combination of total sales over time and the current rate of sales.

My book Fourteen Western Stories has cracked the #10,000 barrier in sales rank. It’s a long way from the top ten, or even the top one hundred, but it’s still startling. My novel Bloodbath, for example, published about a year ago, has a sales rank in the neighborhood of #260,000. Elmore Leonard’s collection of Western stories has a sales rank in the neighborhood of #50,000, although it’s been out for several years.

What’s more, my book has cracked the top one hundred in sales of short story collections, short story collections by single authors and Westerns for the Kindle.

I don’t know how this has happened. I only have three customer reviews, although they’re all positive, and I’m not doing any commercial advertising for the book.

These rankings fluctuate a lot, but somehow the book is finding readers, and I’m very grateful for that fact. I’m especially grateful to friends who’ve bought it and told other friends about it.