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Released Soon - Michelle Moran's The Heretic Queen
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My copy arrived today! Congrats, Michelle! I can't wait to start reading it!
~Susan~
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- diamondlil
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Congrats to Michelle, whose book The Heretic Queen, has gone back for a second printing! Way to go Michelle!
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There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
Edith Wharton
That rocks!
How many copies is a first printing?
How many copies is a first printing?
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Thank you, Diamondlil! Thank you, Divia!!!!
Divia, I'd love to answer your question, but sales figures and print runs are jealously guarded in the publishing industry. Ask almost any author and they'll tell you that getting numbers out of an editor is like asking a cat to go for a walk. Practically impossible (although with some coaxing and the right feline the possibility does exist)!
My first print run is certainly in the tens of thousands since I sold out my first (and probably most of the second) run for the hardcover of Nefertiti. Sometimes, publishers fib to authors about their print runs, and they almost always fib to the media, inflating the number by as much as 80% if they want to spread buzz! It's a strange, strange industry with its own set of unspoken rules. But the truth eventually comes out, if not to the public, then to to author who gets a royalty statement every six months.
Divia, I'd love to answer your question, but sales figures and print runs are jealously guarded in the publishing industry. Ask almost any author and they'll tell you that getting numbers out of an editor is like asking a cat to go for a walk. Practically impossible (although with some coaxing and the right feline the possibility does exist)!
My first print run is certainly in the tens of thousands since I sold out my first (and probably most of the second) run for the hardcover of Nefertiti. Sometimes, publishers fib to authors about their print runs, and they almost always fib to the media, inflating the number by as much as 80% if they want to spread buzz! It's a strange, strange industry with its own set of unspoken rules. But the truth eventually comes out, if not to the public, then to to author who gets a royalty statement every six months.
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- Favourite HF book: Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell!
- Preferred HF: Any
- Location: North Yorkshire, UK
Congratulations, Michelle.
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Books are mirrors, you only see in them what you already have inside you ~ The Shadow of the Wind
Books are mirrors, you only see in them what you already have inside you ~ The Shadow of the Wind
Well I'd like to think the numers arent fibbed about and that your book is burning up the charts
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[quote=""michellemoran""]Thank you, Diamondlil! Thank you, Divia!!!!
Divia, I'd love to answer your question, but sales figures and print runs are jealously guarded in the publishing industry. Ask almost any author and they'll tell you that getting numbers out of an editor is like asking a cat to go for a walk. Practically impossible (although with some coaxing and the right feline the possibility does exist)!
My first print run is certainly in the tens of thousands since I sold out my first (and probably most of the second) run for the hardcover of Nefertiti. Sometimes, publishers fib to authors about their print runs, and they almost always fib to the media, inflating the number by as much as 80% if they want to spread buzz! It's a strange, strange industry with its own set of unspoken rules. But the truth eventually comes out, if not to the public, then to to author who gets a royalty statement every six months.[/quote]
That's interesting Michelle. (congrats on reprint btw ) In the UK and with my publisher I know exactly what my print runs are and exactly how many copies are sold each week. Around publication time they update me with regular reports as a matter of routine. Copies of sales are shown in the trade papers such as The Bookseller using Nielsen Bookscan POS technology, so there's no getting away with fibbing the figures. Hardcover print runs are much smaller than UK print runs - in fact miniscule in comparison if you are selling hardcovers in the tens of thousands. That just doesn't happen in the UK. Hardcover print runs in the UK start at less than 2,000 and do not go much above 10,000 even for a mega-selling author. I've certainly never reached that figure in hardcover, although paperback is a different animal entirely. 10,000 in paperback would immediately put an author on the skids but 10,000 in hardcover is better than fantastic.
I do think the public tend to receive a skewed idea of the kind of income an author earns though - courtesy of J.K. Rowling and Philippa Gregory and the like!
Divia, I'd love to answer your question, but sales figures and print runs are jealously guarded in the publishing industry. Ask almost any author and they'll tell you that getting numbers out of an editor is like asking a cat to go for a walk. Practically impossible (although with some coaxing and the right feline the possibility does exist)!
My first print run is certainly in the tens of thousands since I sold out my first (and probably most of the second) run for the hardcover of Nefertiti. Sometimes, publishers fib to authors about their print runs, and they almost always fib to the media, inflating the number by as much as 80% if they want to spread buzz! It's a strange, strange industry with its own set of unspoken rules. But the truth eventually comes out, if not to the public, then to to author who gets a royalty statement every six months.[/quote]
That's interesting Michelle. (congrats on reprint btw ) In the UK and with my publisher I know exactly what my print runs are and exactly how many copies are sold each week. Around publication time they update me with regular reports as a matter of routine. Copies of sales are shown in the trade papers such as The Bookseller using Nielsen Bookscan POS technology, so there's no getting away with fibbing the figures. Hardcover print runs are much smaller than UK print runs - in fact miniscule in comparison if you are selling hardcovers in the tens of thousands. That just doesn't happen in the UK. Hardcover print runs in the UK start at less than 2,000 and do not go much above 10,000 even for a mega-selling author. I've certainly never reached that figure in hardcover, although paperback is a different animal entirely. 10,000 in paperback would immediately put an author on the skids but 10,000 in hardcover is better than fantastic.
I do think the public tend to receive a skewed idea of the kind of income an author earns though - courtesy of J.K. Rowling and Philippa Gregory and the like!
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Souvent entre piez de chevals
Kar ja li coard nI chasront
'The Brave and the valiant
Are always to be found between the hooves of horses
For never will cowards fall down there.'
Histoire de Guillaume le Mareschal
www.elizabethchadwick.com