Gauging your success as an author

Okay my writer friends... How do you gauge your success as an author?


Two years ago, before my first book was contracted or released, I'd have to say I gauged my success on selling my story to a publisher... Before that all I wanted to do was finish a book and have someone I know read it and like it. LOL

But now I find myself surfing the net, following other published writers, and changing my views on what I now need to use to gauge my success.


As a small press published author, I spend an awfu...