Last week, Stay Down climbed to around #3,800 in the Kindle Store.

Today, it happened again.

The book reached #4,097 overall and hit #1 in Survival Biographies & Memoirs. Right now, it is still sitting at #3 in that category.

The first time it happened, I didn’t know whether it was a one-time spike.

Seeing it happen again tells me it wasn’t.

More people are finding the book. The Amazon rating is now 4.8. Readers are finishing it, leaving reviews, and giving a story I spent most of my life hiding a chance.

I don’t have a publisher or a marketing team. It is just me learning as I go, trying different things, watching what works, and doing everything I can to get the book into the hands of readers.

Stay Down is a story about four brothers, poverty, violence, survival, and what it takes to build a different life from the one you were given.

Seeing it reach #1 in survival means more to me than I can explain.

The first time felt unbelievable.

The second time feels real.