Today a milestone was achieved: my first novel ‘The Purging’ achieved its 50th sale on Amazon. Having spent over a year writing it, grabbing spare moments in a very busy life, and despairing at the non probability of a publisher being interested, I was delighted to find I could self publish both as a paperback and for kindle.
Of course, being rather naïve at all of this I hadn’t really thought through the publicity side of things. Great excitement when I went on line and discovered my first sale had been made. Moments later my eldest son announced that he’d purchased my book the previous evening – really great of him and typical of the support he always gives (thanks also to the other members of my family who helped proof-read and who also bought copies), but as a budding novelist you long for the frisson of knowing that people you don’t know are reading your work. So, how long before a 100 sales? Who knows, but it’s fun and advertising in the Saffron Screen programme certainly seems to have produced a steady increase in sales.