Having sold just eleven copies of my first book I was ruing
following the self publishing route. I realised there is a lot more to this
selling books lark than just putting it on Kindle and waiting.
Nothing highlighted this point more than the revelation this
weekend that a book written by J K Rowling under a pseudonym had sold less than
five hundred copies since its release in April.
The power of her name and her amazing back catalogue led to
sales rocketing within hours of the secret being revealed even though Rowling
herself wanted to ‘keep the secret a little longer’.
The second novel has obvious already been commissioned and
the cynic in me wonders if the slow sales of this first novel had led to this early
revelation, to ensure the full sales potential of the book was realised.
I am sure we would all love to know how to capture the
massive sales that Rowling has achieved in the past, or become the e book
sensation that was Fifty Shades but surely it must make us feel a little better
to know that even JK herself can struggle with sales, albeit due to a name
change.
Jo’s first Anthology – So the Feeling shows is available from Amazon at the links below
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