Today Jim Hines posted on his blog about self promotion. Two pieces of the entry jumped out at me.
If you self-publish, everything’s on you. You might work for an entire year and move 250 books, which is impressive.
Maybe selling 350 picture books in 6 months isn’t so bad after all.
Don’t forget about the next book. If you spend so much time promoting your book that you don’t actually have time to write anymore, then are you still a writer or have you transformed into a salesperson?
Doh! Time to get back to writing.
FWIW, you’ve sold more copies of your book in six months than I sold of Goldfish Dreams in it’s entire three-year run with a small PoD publisher.
I’m curious – how many copies did you have as a minimum figure? I recall you mentioning it, but couldn’t find it in a quick search. (Then again, given it’s 3AM I might well have been looking for Hold Onto Your Hoarses…)
That is very encouraging information. Thanks.
The project breaks even at 700 books sold. That is the point at which I start getting paid. My artist gets paid per book sold whether or not the project ever breaks even. I haven’t yet been able to pay her what her artwork is worth.