This can’t be healthy

I have so much work to do.

1. I have a blog tour to assemble 
2. Subsequent guest blogs to write for already booked tour sites (more to come)
3. Live signings to book for here in town
4. I’m trying to find reviewers for Lady Belling’s Secret
5. I have a bunch of work to do on the first round of edits for Book #2 – Miss Goldsleigh’s Secret
6. I have blogs to write for this site
7. I have to figure out this social media nonsense and it’s giving me hives
8. That stupid, soul-sucking day job at Bank of No Forks

And the problem is I’ve become obsessed with my Amazon rankings. So obsessed, I’ve created a spreadsheet. Great Zeus – seriously – an Excel spreadsheet to keep track of my sales and rankings. I have to make a concerted effort to limit myself to checking in no more than every four hours.

And then I’ll get a Tweet like this from my writer friend, Tara Simone:

Ur book rankings are awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Of course, that just sent me right to Amazon to see what happened since the last time I was there. Tara says it’s perfectly normal. All authors go through it. The problem is I can’t manage to do ANYTHING ELSE. The book has been making a steady climb up the charts. At this very moment it’s ranked 5,021 in Amazon and – here’s the really, really exciting part – #92 in Amazon Regency Romances.

I guess my diet will go better when I stop eating altogether because I’m too busy stalking myself.