So, in effect, my first sale was actually two books.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
As soon as I finished the first book, I wrote a second, which I hope to sell this year, and I have just about finished the third book in the series. Two more are already outlined. I'm in this for the long haul.
I think I made my first short fiction sale in 2005. I had been writing unsuccessfully before that.
I think I'm more marketing- and sales-oriented than others, and the notion of selling books continues to interest me.
My first novel didn't sell well. It was really painful and humiliating and shocking to me.
I sold my very first novel when I was 24 or 25 years old.
If there is going to be any meaningful sales, it's going to be through word of mouth and people recommending it to their book club and then a thousand more book clubs do it, and then you get into real sales numbers.
All the books I have written have been one book, from the beginning.
By no means did my first book sell. I took a few runs at it. You'll never see those early efforts 'cause they're burned, straight to the fireplace where they belong.
I'd sold the book first. Actually to a paperback publisher. I had nothing. I just had the idea.
In the first year, 1988, I wrote and sold 3 novels.