2011: My first self-publishing year by the numbers.

I think that 2011 was a pretty good debut for me as a self-published author. Some non- to semi-interesting stats:

0: books sold to agents

0: coincidentally, the number of agents I queried

0: number of close friends or family members I solicited for a review

0: zombie kills, alas

>0: people I can legitimately call "fans" at this point

>0: fans I secretly want to refer to as "DeWittnesses"

1: book available on Createspace

1: each of a zombie thriller, a Norse mythology adventure, and a short story collection self-published
2: covers created using GIMP

2: past WIPs given new attention ( Croatoan and Addicted )

3: works self-published from June through December

4: number of months that Orpheus was available on Amazon, after I eventually figured out that Smashwords doesn't distribute to Amazon
 
4: planned releases in 2012 (assuming the world doesn't end)

6: people foolish enough to invite me over for a guest post or interview

8: percentage increase of Orpheus sales from September to October

10: short stories in my free collection "Underneath"

64: percentage increase of Orpheus sales from October to November

91: percentage increase of Orpheus sales from November to December

118: "likes" on my Facebook author page

750 (conservative guess): times I mentioned "zombies" online

900: increase in Twitter followers from July through December (big assist to Twitter Goddess Julie A. Lindsey for that one)

3,000 : Tweets (yeesh)

3,000 : pointless Tweets

10,000 : number of downloads of "Underneath"

$100 billion: income goal for 2012 (adjustable)

infinite: possibilities for 2012