First few months of book sales

posted by Jeff | Tuesday, October 4, 2005, 12:23 AM | comments: 3

I got my 2005 first-half sales report for my book today, and fortunately it did include a royalty check. It was about a week's pay at my typical billing rate. That's not particularly great.

Honestly it brings me down a little. I'm just so frustrated with the publisher's lack of marketing effort (or wrong marketing effort). Yes, I've had many e-mail exchanges with people that have read the book and loved it, and that's certainly empowering and validating, but I banked so much of my financial goals for this year on the kind of sales they thought we could achieve.


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October 4, 2005, 7:33 PM #

awww... doesnt that suck? oh well. suck it up and move on... get a real job making a steady income like normal folks do...

Jeff

October 5, 2005, 12:03 AM #

That's some real courage, anonymous jerk.

October 5, 2005, 2:12 AM #

Ditto


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