Taking Stock

This is a screenshot of my Facebook memory for today. The first quarter of 2022 remains the best quarter of sales and page reads I have ever had.

This self-published author business is hard. I know in order to make more sales I have to create and execute a marketing strategy. But the idea that I will invest time and money in marketing and still not sell books is daunting.

After seeing this memory, I decided to go and look at my lifetime stats on Kindle Direct Publishing. Since my first books were published in 2018, I have sold 257 eBooks and 212 print books. 170 of those sales were free book giveaways, so really 299 real sales. There have been 14,812 page reads through Kindle Unlimited.

Those numbers are better than I expected. So that is a positive. At some point in the future I will get serious about marketing and trying to grow my audience. Until then, I will keep writing, and editing, and hoping that somehow, people find my books and read them.