How Motivated Should I Be?
Around this time last month, I was kind of excited about the prospect of writing the 2nd volume of Code for Teens. Then I received the sales report from my publishing company. Sales are so low, they are almost non-existent. They tell me that things should pick up, and they are confident that we will do many more sales this year. But I can't help but think to myself "Did they actually anticipate sales numbers that were really this low in the first three months?" Surely not. I'm not sure what to make of it all. I expected that people reading and enjoying the book would cause increased exposure and attention, but it seems like the book is only dropping rapidly in the Amazon ranking despite having an average of 5 stars basically 100% positive feedback from all of the readers. It's an interesting age we live in where it's surprisingly easy to write a book and get it available for sale, but it's so hard for the book to receive any attention--likely be