By the numbers: a self-publishing post

This entire post is going to be about self-publishing, including specific data on book sales and ad prices, so if that doesn’t interest you… well, you’ve been warned!

So, Grace preorders… meh. I sold 207 copies in pre-order, I believe, which is a very nice number by some standards — certainly by the standard of the Me of seven years ago, who thought selling 100 copies in a year would be a feat — but not a number that would ever impress a publisher. (Not that I need to impress a publisher, it’s just a standard I’m setting for the purposes of this post.)

The details: I announced the book on my blog and Facebook and sold about 30 copies. I think 34 was the actual number before I did anything else. Thank you, oh magical 34. You’re my favorites.