more on ebook sales for 2016, the FROSTBORN series.

Here’s some more about my ebook sales in 2016.

My bestselling book far and away was FROSTBORN OMNIBUS ONE. That book alone was just over 20 percent of my ebook sales for 2016. (Which isn’t surprising, since it was the bestselling self-published SF/F book in Canada for 2016.)

In fact, the FROSTBORN series was exactly two-thirds of my total book sales for 2016.

The bestselling FROSTBORN book (not counting FROSTBORN OMNIBUS ONE) was FROSTBORN: THE MASTER THIEF, with FROSTBORN: THE IRON TOWER coming in a close second.

Of the three FROSTBORN books published in 2016, FROSTBORN: THE HIGH LORDS was the bestselling, probably because it was published in February and had the entire year to build up steam. I think there is a good lesson in that for indie writers. Traditional publishing always worried about how a book did on its first month of sales. The first month will probably be the book’s strongest, of course, but indie writers should look at how a book does over its lifetime rather than just its first month. The nice thing about ebooks and POD paperbacks is that they don’t go out of print.

I have to admit that I find this all exceptionally satisfying, since when DEMONSOULED was published for the first time way back in 2005, the book got this lecturing review saying that traditional fantasy with elves and orcs and suchlike was dead and writers ought to focus on more literary and postmodern types of fantasy.

Well, he who laughs last laughs best! Thank you all for reading so many copies of the FROSTBORN series!

-JM