BEST SELLING, SERIOUSLY?

I was stalking some of my competition online (Yes, we do check who was doing, what??) and there was a lot of best-selling titles being thrown around.

One author/consultant claimed her book is a best-seller, one that is self-published, autobiographical, and utterly unheard of.

The other one is a high-flying speaker with a best-selling book at a prestigious publishing firm. It looks like a great book, but even a 10,000 sales would not make it a best seller. 

When I learned about being an author and being commercially published, the word "Best-selling" became clear to me.

You can game the system, buy all your books and get the title.

The Amazon best-seller scheme is totally a farce.

There is editorial bias (of course, this is hidden right?) in every publication or press holding these coveted titles.

Authors who want to get instant credibility but not quality and hard work that go with authorship are too many now to mention.

There's so much fakery in these that it becomes seriously hollow and vain.

I'm not a best-selling author but I'm commercially published by a reputable press. 

They vouched that my work and ideas are top-notch enough to support me in this journey.

A third-party serious press is the gold standard but of course, I can aim for the next tier of publications next time.

But seriously, in the first few years of my book launch, I got hundred sales from people that get to know me and my work. 

I just got my first cheque last year. 

Not much, but it's great to know that people are behind me and in what I do.

That's very rewarding in itself.

My book and future ones will be long-term products of quality, hard work, and passion to share knowledge and help people as a result. 

Promotions will continue for quite a long time and the new books will definitely resurrect those preceding it.

In matters of business honesty, fellow entrepreneurs, be real.

​Public, it's all a lie. Don't buy the lie.