Lessons Learned from the 1700 Books in My Basement

Adventures in overly optimistic self-publishing

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Last summer, I self-published my first book. I assumed, like all authors, that it was going to be a huge success, and I’m a sucker for batch-based price breaks, so I put in an order for what I thought was a tiny-bit-optimistic-but-still-totally-reasonable first pressing: 2000 copies.