Transparency in Indie Publishing Month 5

Here we are, halfway through 2011, and my sales are still going up. I'm not hitting my (rather lofty) sales goals, but my sales are increasing each month, which is awesome. In June, I had no returns, which was also awesome since I'd had a handful on both books in May (which was worrying, to say the least).

As far as marketing goes, I had one review toward the end of the month on ATUAF, but other than that I didn't do much. I barely even posted on Facebook or Twitter. In July, I'm hoping to get more promotional work done, especially sending out copies to book bloggers (if you're a book blogger and are reading this, let me know if you'd like a copy!). So here are my sales numbers for June:

Aboard the Unstoppable Aerostat Fenris

Amazon US: 58 (last month was 52)
Amazon UK: 6 (last month was 6)
Barnes & Noble: 18 (last month was 9)
Smashwords: 2 (last month was 0)
TOTAL: 84 (last month was 64, so I'm up roughly 30%)

The Great Healion Race

Amazon US: 28 (last month was 24)
Amazon UK: 0 (last month was 3)
Barnes & Noble: 3 (last month was 1)
Smashwords: 0 (last month was 0)
TOTAL: 31 (last month was 28, so up by about 11%)

So my total sales for the month were 115 copies, compared to last month's 92. Not a bad increase (25%).

As long as my sales keep going up from month to month, I'm happy. A 25% increase is completely acceptable to me. Sure, I'd like it to be higher, but I'm not going to discount the fact that my sales continue to go up, despite doing very little marketing, when a lot of authors have stagnant or declining sales.