Well, the bad news is that starting March 29, I am back at work full time. Sigh. This is depressing. My writing Mondays are gone. Whether I will ever be able to go back to four days a week is not known. Doubtful I think, given the environment. Well. Heck. Nothing I can do about that since I cannot quit my job. So, I have been hearing very nice things lately from people who are writing to me about The Spare and even a few who have recently read Lord Ruin. But, it is clear to me that I have no hope of making a living from writing with print runs of 15,000. It doesn't matter how good the book is if hardly anyone actually gets to buy it. What is equally clear is, if the rule of thumb about intial sales applies, then the print run for Lord Ruin could easily have been 2-3x what it was and maintained a decent sell-through, but that assumes concomittant distribution. Now, I'm torturing myself about things I can do nothing about.
posted by Carolyn @ 3/20/2004 07:50:00 PM Permalink
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