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Rainbow-book?
Fascinating!
I never would have thought of that.
I take it you're a teacher or lecturer of some sort (having to do with the English language, of course).
As to books not selling, I believe I read somewhere that there are over 3.5 million writers (or Kindle books - not sure which) with only a fraction of these selling squat. And it's also my understanding that some of those in the no-sale margin are quite good.
One poster at the Amazon KDP Support forum asked this question; "WHY IS NO ONE BUYING MY KINDLE BOOK?"
And one member answered in this way, "Obtaining those initial sales for our first efforts is a problem most new authors must face. When I published my first books I had to wait better than a year before I began getting significant sales. I think new authors fixate too much on early sales. If they come, then all is well, but we must realize many titles never sell. I have never attempted to publicize my books, just gratefully accepting the sales when they finally did arrive. "
Just some of the realities many self-published writers must face. Sales may eventually come, for some. But quite a few are destined to remain in the 'no-sale' zone - whether awfully bad or fairly good.
Me? I have pieces I'd written on someone else's behalf regarding the horrors of adoption, or the literal stealing of a child. And I also have several "expert-advice" articles I'd written about my favourite hobby. Both of these I may some day try to convert to book-form, similar to (or, hopefully, even better than) my current attempt.
If I didn't have these three works already done, basically, I doubt I'd ever have attempted to enter this field at all - and I'm not even mentioning harboring any great notions of reaping a profit. Nevertheless, I may be lucky enough to have a few sales in a year or so from now. And, depending on how that goes, I could well be encouraged to actually sit down with the intent to write a book, from start to finish, some day. Who knows?
Forgive me for ranting. Guess this may be just a reality-check.
Curious too as to how sales went with your two books. But perhaps I'm being too inquisitive, so no prob if you can't be bothered to answer that.
Incidentally, I've read where some recommend all manner of means of promoting one's books, up to and perhaps including jumping over the moon. I don't mind some promotion, but I doubt I'd ever be interested in going to such extremes as some I've seen recommended. Glad to see that that guy's laid-back attitude paid dividends too; "I have never attempted to publicize my books, just gratefully accepting the sales when they finally did arrive."
Interesting.
Cheers.
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