Outselling Stephen King
The above, grossly-misleading headline resulted from me waking up this morning to find my retarded horror novel John Dies at the End is at #969 on the Amazon sales ranks, and #88 in the horror genre.
Books we’re currently outselling:
Wizard and Glass, by Stephen King (No. 91);
Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson (#89)
You know, I feel emboldened to say this: Treasure Island is without a doubt the worst horror novel I’ve ever read. Anyway, right now we’re one notch behind A Turn of the Screw by Henry James, and they had to drop the price to $1.75 to beat me.
Now, let’s not go crazy here, one thing that skews these numbers is that my book is pretty much only available on Amazon and other online booksellers. Those other books are selling tens of thousands of copies in brick-and-mortar book stores and grocery stores and Wal-Mart. That’s why you don’t have to sell more than a few hundred copies to climb up those Amazon sales ranks. Still…
I had also gotten 30 copies for myself, that I decided I’d give away to the first 30, or possibly the only 30, people who wanted signed editions. I mentioned it on my forums and the 30 were claimed in a couple of hours, then about 120 more people said they wanted one before I stepped in and told them the books were gone and that they were all screwed. Now, again, some of that was because they were free and as someone pointed out, you can give away herpes on the internet if you say it’s free.
That said, I will start selling signed copies if people want them. Inquire here.
