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Thank you very much... It's not too late, in fact it's just in time.  

I thought I could delete this, but I can't seem to see how.

Congratulations!  Well done, hear hear, all that good stuff...

Well, we've talked before about how hard it is to track numbers, but I just read a press release from Covenant and it said that since June 1, they've sold about 3500 copies of my book.  Now this is just books sold to book stores, so I'm sure that of that 3500 about 1000-1500 are still in stores, but I have been told that a lot of the seagull stores have been reordering, so that is probably good news.

I'm a bit surprised because I've been tracking Deseret Book numbers and they have only sold a whopping 80 copies.  

Anyway, hopefully this is a good sign.

Thanks, Skar!

So, I was doing book signings yesterday and finally worked up the courage to ask the clerks if anybody had actually been buying my books.

I should mention, that I've been tracking sales on Deseret Book, because it's fairly easy to do.  I have nothing to compare it to, so I don't know if it's doing good, bad, , normal, whatever.

However, what IS surprising is that the number of books sold by the entire Deseret chain the first week, was the same number that this one store had sold in two weeks.

And when I asked at the second store, they had sold the same amount as the first store.  So these two Seagull Book stores had sold as many books as all of the Deseret Book stores combined.

It's a bit disquieting to think that my book is only going to be marketed to folks in Utah, and that the biggest LDS book chain isn't going to bother marketing it at all...

I think I'm going to release my next book under Creative Commons.

A self-fulfilling book list.  If you keep a book on the NYT best sellers list for long enough, it will eventually sell a lot of books.

Interesting, I had no idea that was the case.

Just a quick update on book signings.  If anybody lives in Logan I will be at the Seagull Book and Tape today (Friday, June 24th).  Then I will be in Ogden, Riverdale, and Layton tomorrow...

I thought about e-mailing Robby, but I didn't want to appear anxious, even though that is exactly what I am.  Plus I'm jumping the gun.  There was no advertisement, I'm a first time author, there have been no reviews, so I can't expect much.  My numbers are based purely on cover art and friends buying it, and since I use a pen name, the second group is probably smaller than it should be.

Anyway, I'll keep tracking DB numbers.