The Mystery Behind Naked Happydancing

It sat there for months.  Not just days or weeks.  Months.  I kept logging on to Smashwords and Amazon so see how my little experiment in the realm of digital self-publishing, The Department, was going.  Sales and samples just ticked along  soooo   s  l  o  w  l  y  that I wrote it off as a story I should never have bothered with in the first place.  I dropped the price to $0.00 and kind of forgot about it and put all my efforts into releasing Golden Mane.

Then something happened.  At some stage in the last 36 hours, The Department went nuts on Amazon.  Now I'm going nuts.  I keep refreshing my Kindle Direct Publish reports page to see the numbers just go up and up and up.  When I view The Department's Amazon page, I keep seeing those all-important little figures get smaller and smaller.  As I write this, I'm #273 in Free Amazon Kindle Store and #31 in Free Contemporary Fiction.

Much happydancing has ensued.  Some of it naked.  Good thing the dog's outside.  The last thing I want while I'm naked happydancing is a German Shepherd's cold wet nose investigating places on my body normally covered with Bonds briefs. 

So what caused this?  To be honest, I'm not sure.  Smashwords is doing a promotion at the moment but since I didn't release The Department through Smashwords in mobi (I went with Amazon Direct directly (I love that: I got to use two forms of the one word in a row!)), it probably wasn't anything to do with Smashwords.

The only thing I can think of is that I've been listed on a free ebook site somewhere.  As soon as I know more, I'll post it.  Now, where did I put those briefs...?