{"id":1089,"date":"2014-09-24T06:24:02","date_gmt":"2014-09-24T06:24:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paulinemross.co.uk\/?p=1089"},"modified":"2014-09-24T06:24:34","modified_gmt":"2014-09-24T06:24:34","slug":"milestone-achieved-fifty-sales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paulinemross.co.uk\/index.php\/2014\/09\/milestone-achieved-fifty-sales\/","title":{"rendered":"Milestone achieved: fifty sales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri'; font-size: 14pt;\">When I pressed the \u2018publish\u2019 button for \u2018The Plains of Kallanash\u2019 twelve days ago, my expectations were realistic (read: low). First book, no platform, no horde of fans waiting anxiously<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri'; font-size: 14pt;\">. And no plan to promote the thing beyond telling people I know: hey, look, this book I\u2019ve been wittering about? It\u2019s out. So being realistic (read: pessimistic), I hoped to sell 15-20 copies to online friends, and thereafter perhaps a copy or so a week to random strangers. Maybe 50 copies in the first six months.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"-qt-block-indent: 0; text-indent: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 8px 0px;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri'; font-size: 14pt;\">Today when I checked my sales stats I found a nice surprise: a sale in Germany which brought the total sales up to 50. My first milestone achieved already. It isn\u2019t much of a milestone, but it\u2019s more than I expected at this stage, which is pleasing. So <\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri'; font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic;\">\u2018Danke\u2019,<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri'; font-size: 14pt;\"> random stranger in Germany. I hope you enjoy the book.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I pressed the \u2018publish\u2019 button for \u2018The Plains of Kallanash\u2019 twelve days ago, my expectations were realistic (read: low). First book, no platform, no horde of fans waiting anxiously. And no plan to promote the thing beyond telling people I know: hey, look, this book I\u2019ve been wittering about? It\u2019s out. So being realistic (read: pessimistic), I hoped to sell 15-20 copies to online friends, and thereafter perhaps a copy or so a week to random strangers. Maybe 50 copies in the first six months. Today when I checked my sales stats I found a nice surprise: a sale in Germany which brought the total sales up to 50. My first milestone achieved already. It isn\u2019t much of a milestone, but it\u2019s more than I expected at this stage, which is pleasing. So \u2018Danke\u2019, random stranger in Germany. I hope you enjoy the book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulinemross.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1089"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulinemross.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulinemross.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulinemross.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulinemross.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1089"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/paulinemross.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1091,"href":"https:\/\/paulinemross.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1089\/revisions\/1091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulinemross.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulinemross.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulinemross.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}