onerifle, As I mentioned in a much earlier post, one reason we do this is to get a handle on before-publication demand. Between this list, and the one Eileen's been compiling, we already have close to 300 requests, so will probably order at least 1000 for the first printing--and maybe more.
It bothers -saddens - me to read of a first print order of only 1K given a population over 332,403,650 people in the U.S. of A. and many more literate in English around the world. Not a personal criticism I hasten to add; rather more power to you and wishing your sales numbers matched even one percent of some folk's YouTube subscriber count.
I'd have hoped to see far more copies of your books in print. Maybe we will eventually. The Thor Power Tool decision and a myriad of other influences have been hard on book publishing small and large. Bob Hagel's book was the last that comes to mind by a major publishing house - Knopf - and reprinted by Wolfe with other books by specialty publishers.
