Make your Million Yet?

I love going to the airport every night because my coworkers are all so excited for me. Every shift is a new group of people so every night I get a lot of wonderful encouragement about the book. One manager likes to ask every day "make your million yet?" Which I love. The answer, of course, is no, but I tell him to keep asking.

For most books, the closer to the launch date, the higher the sales. For indie books, though, it's more of a bell curve. I'm hoping the work that's going into building a strong web presence will contribute to a steadier climb in sales once we start selling in actual brick-and-mortar stores.

So maybe in a few months we'll be a few books closer to a million bucks.

Tricky thing, though, most authors also don't make money on the first book, which is a tough reality to swallow when--as an indie author--I've written the big checks to make the publication happen. So why put all the effort into a book that won't make a million? Because the hope is that it at least make a bit of credibility. So that when I go to publish book number 2, I'll have an easier time doing it because I would have proven an audience. Right?

Plus, the best part ever about being an indie author is that I retained all rights to Lost Edens. There's still hope that someday I'll pull a memoirist's version of Once a Runner or an Amanda Hocking.

A girl can dream, right?