My two e-self-published works, Documenting America and “Mom’s Letter” languish, rated lower than 366,000th and 464,000th among Kindle e-books. One sale of each will bring them up to rank around 40,000. That tells me some 320,000 or so books have sold one copy since I last sold one.

I’ve posted both to Facebook, I think two times. I have a few new friends since I last posted, but probably not enough new to justify another post. I don’t want to become a spammer.

I haven’t wanted to do much on promotion of either one until I had the paper book of Documenting America in hand and ready to sell. While e-books will remain popular and even grow in popularity, the potential is still there to sell more paper books. The places I would like to promote them will present the chance for both e-book and paper book sales.

So I’m holding off on promotion until I can get the paper book done. I’m stymied on the paper book, waiting on a necessary item that I’m getting for no charge. Of course, so far I’ve received what I paid for. Eventually I’ll pay to get the thing done.

So, while I can’t publish and therefore can’t promote, I’m writing. Last week I added over 9,000 words to In Front of Fifty Thousand Screaming People. The world is exhibiting very little impatience for this book, but I keep plugging away. Today marks two months since I submitted it at its 21,000 word point to an agent. I think that means I have another month to go before “no reply is a no” kicks in, though I’d better double-check on that. I’m still working toward a first half of October completion for it. After that comes at least one round of edits before I work on something else.