Selling out 'Soy Sauce, Sugar, Mirin'.

Soy Sauce, Sugar, Mirin has officially sold out its first print run.

So far I have sold 460+ copies.

But wait a minute, Harvard, didn't you say you are only printing 450 copies?

Er, yea, but what if some books came damaged?
What if I dropped a whole box into a muddy puddle?
What if some orders got lost in the mail?

Contingency plan.
Back up.
Just in case.

So I actually printed 500 copies.

To be honest, I'm not sure how many copies I have. I've discarded a few with crumpled pages.
Gave a few out as samples.

All I know is I have 20 odd copies left.
And since yesterday I’ve been numbering my books 455 / 450.
So that’s super super special.

I think I'll move on to ebooks now.

Totebags, remember? I think they’re coming next week.
The promotion I'm thinking is ‘buy a copy of my ebook and be in the running of winning an orange totebags’. It’s so stupid because the international shipping fee is probably more expensive than the tote bag lol

I have discovered a new strategy to print my 2nd run. I'm looking at good old fashioned paperback. Thing is, print shops won't be printing until the new year so I'll probably look into that later. Besides I have 3 weddings coming up in the next week.

And Broadsheet did a roadblock promo on my book yesterday. Actually I was told they published it on the 7th, but yesterday I was on their Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, Adelaide Instagram pages. Very kind of them.

Want to know how many extra copies of books I sold because of that?

Ten.

LOL not ten thousand, just ten.

I assume 1. because I was categorised into the 'recipe' section. It took Chika a while to find my piece from her phone 2. Timing, because no one is in a cooking mood right now 3. My content does not resonate with the Broadsheet audience 4. I'm not as important as I think I am

But you know what, it was a relief. When the editor told me she's going to 'run it soon' I wasn’t sure if I should rush the 2nd print run. It’s pointless to have thousands to visit only to find out it’s sold out.

So in a way, this works out fine for me.

I get to chill for a week or two and focus on my real job - photography.

Low expectation, low disappointment.