How Many Copies Must an Author Sell in Order to be Considered Successful

Selling books is hard… I don’t care if you’re Simon and Schuster or a self published POD author. The competition to sell books is FIERCE.
With this in mind, many authors have an unrealistic expectation of “success”.
One way to rephrase this question is “How many books will I have to sell to break even?”
If you’re [...]

Writing and Selling Books

Notice the title of this post… writing AND selling books. For many authors, writing books is the easy part, it’s the selling books that is hard!
However, if you want to support yourself with your writing, then selling books is an important part of the equation.
Deborah Greenspan of Llumina Publishing writes in Tips on Marketing [...]