Still climbing at Fictionwise! Up to #5!

[annathepiper]

As of last night I’d jumped up to #6 on Fictionwise’s Fantasy list–but as of tonight? #5, baby! Now I’m in the box at the top of the page!

I am desperately, desperately curious about how many copies this means I’ve actually sold. I mean, let’s be realistic here–I’m an SF/F author and I’m selling in ebook form to boot, so my expectations here are not high. I’ll be stunned and pleased if overall I sell enough copies of this book to get that loverly, loverly Cargo guitar I’m swooning for (which, by the rough math, would require me to sell about 500 copies). For all I know, this ranking on Fictionwise’s list may mean I’ve sold 20 copies in the last twenty days and everybody below me is spread out all the way down to zip. *^_^*;;

I won’t know for sure probably until I get the pertinent royalty statement. Which may not be the first one; I don’t know what span of time that will cover. It may be royalty statement #2!

Till then, though, I’ll indulge myself with the egoboo. And again, anybody out there reading this who’s actually bought the book off of Fictionwise, thank you very much!

Climbing Fast

Mirrored from angelakorrati.com.

Comments

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Heh. Fictionwise pays quarterly. If Drollerie follows old dead-tree publishers' practice, they will reckon royalties twice a year, end-of-June and end-of-December, and actually pay you anything up to three months after that. If they follow contemporary e-pub practice, they should account to you monthly. In which case it may be three or four months before Fictionwise payments show up. Possess your soul in patience... (This is a rule that applies universally in publishing. I have distilled it into Brenchley's First Rule of Everything, which states: Everything Takes Longer.)

[annathepiper]

Drollerie does quarterly royalty payments as far as I know and my first one is due Any Time Now (modulo when my editor is able to send them out). Sounds like the Fictionwise numbers won't show up for a bit then!

Thanks for the info, much appreciated. And yeah, I must be patient! I'll be happy until then to go holy crap at least a few people are actually buying my book. :)

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Ah, right. In that case, next time... (Gives you time to shift more, climb higher in the charts, so on and so forth...)

[annathepiper]

And work on other things, and read books by other people! Like oh, say, you; I still have one of yours on my To Read shelf!

BTW, I still want to read Dispossession, and now I have Paypal capability! Do you still have copies?

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Whoo yeah, I have copies. Hardbacks certainly, and - *scans shelves* paperbacks also...

[ravyngyngvar.livejournal.com]

You're #2!

Goddammit, you're number two!!

One book left above you; "Stray" by Rachel Vincent. Will you pass that one, too?

[annathepiper]

I did just indeed notice the jump to #2! This would be me over here going "Wait what I ACTUALLY PASSED CHARLAINE HARRIS?!"

We'll have to see if I pull ahead of the Vincent, too; the other books of her series are further down the list and I've already pulled ahead of them, but still...

And the real question will be not whether I hit that #1 spot but whether I can stay there for any interesting length of time. From #18 to #2 in a week doesn't suck though. :D

[annathepiper]

Awesome. :) I need to throw a bit of money into the Paypal account and that'll take a few days to clear, but once that's done I'll buy a copy off your site.