A Week After Release

One week after the big release and business has not stopped. In fact, business is only just getting started.

Iris, the first book in the Color of Water and Sky series, was released to the world on September 27th, just last Tuesday. Sales came rushing in right away.

At this point in time, exactly 2/3 of sales  have been paperback editions sold over CreateSpace, the largest profit margin for authors. Another 1/6 of sales have been digital editions sold over Kindle Market, the second largest profit margin. The final 1/6 of sales have been paperback editions sold over Amazon.com, which provides the lowest royalty rate per book sold of the three.

Overall sales numbers have not been as high as anticipated. It seems many people who have promised purchases have either provided false information or are holding off to purchase the book at a later time.

Despite the big release, work has not stopped for this busy author. In fact, the work only gets more tedious. Some customers have complained about bad cover art, which resulted in a lengthy call to the printer’s office. Files needed to be resubmitted, covers needed to be reformatted and Iris was temporarily unavailable for sale for a brief window of time.

With every success comes a few hurdles. But it’s a good thing problems like these are resolved early on.

The next step? Get the second book out as soon as possible. When it comes to books in a series, sales of the first book generally lead to sales of the second. Marketing the series and generating profit will only get easier the more books are released.

Iris took over two years to publish. Ideally the second book will be out before 2018. This seems like a reasonable and achievable goal.

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