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Originally Posted by jaxx6166
If I had to live off my royalties, I'd be under the bridge eating bag lunches from charity organizations and churches.
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Ha! I forgot about the charities perhaps I wouldn't die after all, mind you, a box on Embankment is cold this time of year...
Actually, I know everyone probably says this but apparently, only something like 10% of paper books sell more than 1,000 copies and if you look at some of the guys who are doing really well out of self publishing, they're the ones publishing factual books. Aaron Shepherd says somewhere in his book that an indie author publishing fiction shouldn't expect the earth... not straight away anyway.
I suppose, after reading that, it never occurred to me I'd make any money. I'm aiming for 50 sales overall. I'm currently at 2 paperback and 4 e-book giveaways. My sales rank on Amazon has gone from 400,000 and something 54,634 with the book billed as being "temporarily out of print" ie past its launch date and still not available. That must mean somebody, somewhere has bought an advance copy (as well as my friend Jill and my Mum).
I think it's like being an indie band, you put in a lot of hard work but even if you've produced a good book that does well, you need luck, too, for it to really fly.
That's probably the most long-winded way of saying 'I don't expect to' ever written...
Cheers
MTM