Last week I posted about sales of “Mom’s Letter,” and how I had some in early March. Since then I had one more, making 3 in March, 6 in 2012, and 15 over all. My total royalties for it are $5.65, some paid, some accrued and waiting for the next payout. So that’s less than I would have received had I placed the short story in a literary journal, but more than I would have earned if it never placed at all. In fact, I don’t know if I’ve earned enough to cover the postage to the places I mailed it to, all of whom rejected it.

But the subject of this post is really Documenting America. I ran the sales graph for it this morning from Amazon Author Central, for all available data. Here it is.

As I hope shows on this graph, the most recent sale was in mid-February; the highest ranking was 53,121 in early November, and the current rank (as of the hour in which I pulled this chart; it’s updated hourly) is 499,108.

As I mentioned before, I’m not all that concerned about ranking. I’m more interested in sales and royalties. This chart does show, however, the power of a single sale when you’re way down the list.

Someday I’ll have enough sales that I won’t worry about this stuff, or at least won’t bore you, my faithful readers, with it. But it’s new enough to me that I want to do it at the moment.

News Flash: A fellow author just contacted me to say she bought a copy of “Mom’s Letter” today, which isn’t yet showing on the charts. Woohoo!