Mark Twain had sales problems too

You have read some of Mark Twain's books...right? From our prospective he seemed to have been the best choice a publisher could make. Yet while he predicted 100,000 sales for his book, Life on the Mississippi, it took sixty years for it to reach that level.

I suppose if you are a self publisher or using some of the many companies who do assisted publishing, you are ordering from one to 1,000 copies.

Harper Collins printed 2 million copies of Go Set A Watchman, that's how confident they are of the novel's acceptance. Time will tell if they have a bunch of returns or remainders that linger on the back shelf at $1 each and a black mark across the bottom of the book.

My point is that it is between difficult and impossible to predict the sales for any book. Industry spokesmen say the average book published in America sells less than 100 copies. By that token you are above average if you sell more than 100 copies of a particular book. By your own token, to sell only 100 books hurts to the core.

Keep on counting and keep on selling. The two will meet somewhere out there.