A Six Figure Self Published Book - THE NUMBERS ARE IN
Added 2025-04-23 11:05:36 +0000 UTCHappy YouTube-aversary for tomorrow, I hope you find the numbers interesting :)
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Now that's just great. I loved and still love the book and I was so happy when it became a best selling book. Very happy for you. I personally bought the paperback on Amazon just because that was the fastest way for me to get it. The amor sounds great can't wait to see it someday.
Christoph
2025-07-02 17:07:15 +0000 UTCCongratulations! I love hearing success stories! You mentioned a possible future video where you'd break down more numbers from the various platforms. I'd really like to know the breakdown on what you spent on editing and covers etc, as well as, how you found the people you worked with. Wishing you all the best in the next steps.
Gina K
2025-06-02 20:20:19 +0000 UTCI had an opportunity to fan-boy all over... er, meet at a professional conference... some technical authors I followed (and owned a shelf of books by) in 2015. They were standing around at the hotel bar and I insinuated myself into their circle. They were all talking about how terribly publishing had treated them, and I could keep up and interject because my parents were in printing & publishing. Overall, I would say that until you're a best-selling author, being a writer in the commercial publishing realm just sucks.
Allan West
2025-04-25 19:34:58 +0000 UTCI have no idea where it would show up in your numbers, but I'm in Tokyo and I ordered a paperback by telling a local book store that knows how to get foreign books "I'd like this please" So you have at least one copy sold in Japan.
Natalie Arnold
2025-04-25 11:34:42 +0000 UTCYa know, one of my favourite things about this book is still that it reads like meta fanfiction. This coming from someone who really really loves fanfiction, who spends more time on ao3 than is probably healthy. Which, btw, you've got a fandom on there. Glad we could help pay off your mortgage
LeiHaddock
2025-04-25 11:01:15 +0000 UTCI'm delighted to hear this!
J. E. Draft
2025-04-24 23:48:10 +0000 UTCJust, wow!
Liz C
2025-04-24 19:44:33 +0000 UTCWe bought you a house! This is a most excellent result. Result!
Renée
2025-04-24 15:49:28 +0000 UTCIf it wasn’t from Amazon, it’s from Ingram, so $3 🙂
Jill Bearup
2025-04-24 04:58:20 +0000 UTCI don't know how I originally stumbled upon your shorts, but my life has been better since then!
Jack Fisher (ChumSlinger)
2025-04-24 04:39:44 +0000 UTCCongrats!!!! What s delightful result of fan bullying 😁
Winslow
2025-04-24 03:07:24 +0000 UTCI wonder, does that horrible summer of line editing finally feel worth it? Many congrats again! :D
StephanieGail
2025-04-24 02:11:31 +0000 UTCWhile you mentioned a number of popular outlets such as Ingram and how much you made from each sale there, I pre-ordered my copy from an independent bookstore in the States (shout out Austin's BookPeople!) How much do you realise from out-in-the-woods preorders such as mine?
Sam Waring
2025-04-24 00:17:35 +0000 UTCIt would appear that you have founded a genre... https://youtube.com/shorts/1VtL3shHRns?si=JpaMSLih0sCkzyPf
Jim Sanderson
2025-04-23 23:57:51 +0000 UTCCongratulations! Very well deserved
Leonard Richard Stanway
2025-04-23 23:17:21 +0000 UTCYou are welcome.
Aguido Horatio Davis
2025-04-23 22:44:08 +0000 UTCI'm glad to hear some good news from you, Jill! "Maybe old people will read it!" I bet some youngun's are reading it, too!
Alvin Plummer
2025-04-23 20:53:29 +0000 UTCThis is incredible, too happy to hear this news!!
Fish
2025-04-23 20:35:42 +0000 UTC8:28 Even the book took a bow
Jonathan Campbell
2025-04-23 20:30:14 +0000 UTCCongratulations!!
L J
2025-04-23 19:43:12 +0000 UTCI am very happy that this was so successful for you. I have loved being a (small) part of the progress and success. I am looking forward to getting the hardcover (I don't need it, just want it) and the audio book. Yay for success!
Jerry
2025-04-23 18:18:24 +0000 UTCHave the paperback! Re that 'hideous light fixture' -- how cool would it be if those fan blades were replaced with carved wooden swords?? I suspect a clear plastic or glass piece, placed on top, vertically, at the very end of each blade would greatly improve air flow. ie, ____| Most fans I've come across always have a lot of air blowing out the sides, and even the back, in response to that slightly compressed lump of air on the 'in' side; a vertical piece would probably reduce that.
Sikhandtake Rakhuvar
2025-04-23 17:13:21 +0000 UTCHuzzah! Ditto and likewise...
Crochet4Joy
2025-04-23 16:26:24 +0000 UTCGood for you!!!
Stephen
2025-04-23 15:57:50 +0000 UTCThat's all so exciting! I'm so happy for you 🎉
Kenzie Anne
2025-04-23 15:16:04 +0000 UTCSo, so happy for you, Jill. Very well deserved. Now, sequel?
Sally4th
2025-04-23 15:06:20 +0000 UTCWoot! Congrats, of course, but also thanks for sharing not only 'Just Stab Me Now', but also so much of the behind-the-scenes. It's humanizing peek behind the curtain of self-publishing, and strangely also feels like a shared victory for the forces of good.
Gene Simonalle
2025-04-23 14:49:41 +0000 UTCGood on you.. will order your book.. love your work
Peter Hill
2025-04-23 14:39:49 +0000 UTCYou are amazing and I love that.
UndercoverPrincessMandy
2025-04-23 14:39:01 +0000 UTCI was very happy to hear you paid off your mortgage with the proceeds from your book that started as a series of YouTube Shorts. I actually felt my eyes get a little moist. Congratulations on your own personal broken door handle!
Steve
2025-04-23 14:07:27 +0000 UTCHappy YouTube Anniversary!
Samuel Smith
2025-04-23 13:13:37 +0000 UTCI am so very, very happy for you! I am honored to be among your patrons, to have watched the entire Fantasy Heroine series several times, to have purchased your book, to have helped you pay off your mortgage, and especially, to have helped enable you to order your very own suit of armor! I'm sure I speak for your many fans when I say, we are eagerly awaiting those videos!
Ann Brookens
2025-04-23 12:57:31 +0000 UTCI'm going to try to sell this to my book club ;) Wish me luck.
John Deighan
2025-04-23 12:44:27 +0000 UTCHappy YouTube anniversary! While I purchased the paperback, waiting for the audio book to experience the whole story. Can't wait!! Having just re-mortgaged my house to pay for some "lessons learned", I'm very happy that you have been able to pay your's off :-)
Nick Cohn
2025-04-23 12:10:38 +0000 UTCWow that's great news! Paying off your mortgage and setting aside money for taxes, smart and responsible. Throw in a suit of armor and you are just amazing. I am very proud to be one of your many patrons. 😻.
James Baker
2025-04-23 11:59:48 +0000 UTCCongratulations on paying off the mortgage! I'm patiently waiting for the audio book...I hear your voice anyway whilst reading, so this week save me the mental effort
Nick Ortega
2025-04-23 11:47:01 +0000 UTCThe book may be ruined, but at least it was refreshed 😁
Jill Bearup
2025-04-23 11:34:49 +0000 UTCI watched the shorts series as it was coming out, but hadn't read the book yet. Thanks for mentioning the library, my library here in Kansas actually has it! Congrats on paying off your mortgage!
Kaylen Peterson
2025-04-23 11:31:49 +0000 UTCI bought the ebook last week and am starting it today! Also having the Princess Bride as the closest comparison is IMO some of the highest praise a book can get.
Angelica Garcia
2025-04-23 11:26:12 +0000 UTCJill in a few years: my child needs a college fund. I wonder where that will come from. Us from the edges: Hope for a new book????
Cassandra
2025-04-23 11:25:29 +0000 UTCBig bucks from books about non-buxom brawlers?
Anders
2025-04-23 11:23:25 +0000 UTCThat is so cool. I respect your choice to not publish another but congrats for sales on Just Stab Me Now....
AltheGreatandPowerful
2025-04-23 11:23:24 +0000 UTCHUZZAH! No debtor's prison for you or Little Bearup! Many congratulations!
Ra Jeffrey
2025-04-23 11:19:19 +0000 UTCAs someone with a mortgage, I am glad that I was able to contribute towards paying yours off. 10/10 book and I will be ordering my new paper back copy soon as my original had an unfortunate accident with a glass of iced tea
Sara Moseley
2025-04-23 11:18:07 +0000 UTC
