{"id":406,"date":"2008-06-18T19:22:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-18T19:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/?p=406"},"modified":"2008-06-18T19:22:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-18T19:22:00","slug":"in-the-top-23rd-percentile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/?p=406","title":{"rendered":"In the top 23rd percentile!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s how I&#8217;m looking at it, anyway. I just sold the 100th copy of <i>Mortal Touch<\/i>&#8211;and it was a Kindle edition. Wait until the audiobook is out! (I&#8217;m rehearsing it now, in case you&#8217;re wondering. Gods, what a lot of work.)<\/p>\n<p>According to the Book Industry Study Group, in 2004 less than 23% of all books published&#8211;by all publishers, of any size&#8211;sold more than 99 copies. It may not sound like much, but I have now sold more copies than three-quarters of all titles published. And sales have been <u>increasing<\/u> during May and June. The buzz is building. I&#8217;m up another vertabra or two on The Long Tail. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>I got another set of judges&#8217; evaluation forms back from the contest I mentioned earlier. I <u>thought<\/u> I&#8217;d entered <i>Mortal Touch<\/i> into more than one category! Very interesting comments, and mostly good ratings. Two of these judges placed <i>Mortal Touch<\/i> in the Top Ten for that category. They just didn&#8217;t seem to love it quite so much as my paying customers all do. And I suppose the customers are more important!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s how I&#8217;m looking at it, anyway. I just sold the 100th copy of Mortal Touch&#8211;and it was a Kindle edition. Wait until the audiobook is out! (I&#8217;m rehearsing it now, in case you&#8217;re wondering. Gods, what a lot of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/?p=406\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}