I noticed on my Amazon author stats this week that I reached Best-selling Author #23,347 last Friday. While that doesn’t look impressive, remember that all my contributing sales are from anthologies that typically don’t sell as well as novels. And the Best-selling Author list goes down to at least #89,232 because that was where I was last March. But all these stats are fleeting — updated hourly, according to Amazon — and I see that is true. I’ve already slipped to #33,804. Sic transit gloria mundi. (My Amazon books can be seen at www.amazon.com/author/shipley.)