Monday, July 29, 2002
The headache finally decided it'd had its fill and went off to torture someone else, and I was able to do the first 1,005 words on Chapter Twelve today. So. Back on track.
Also, I recieved the first semi-annual royalty statement from Penguin for Threshold. I usually dread these things. But, to my relief and surprise, the novel's return rate is extremely low, just over 5%, as of March 2002. For those of you unfamiliar with the mathematics of publishing, the return rate is the number one gets after dividing the number of returned books by the number of books sold. It's a sum of which all writers live in mortal terror. Low is good. High is bad. Bookstores are allowed to return unsold books to the publisher for refunds and publishers set much stock by how many books get returned. For this same first periord, Silk didn't even do one-fifth this well, scoring a return rate of 26.2%. So, something to smile about.
Oh, and it's official. It's never going to rain in Birmingham again.
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