Twice a year when I pay author royalties, I spend a lot of time staring at the sales numbers, tallying them across all the various platforms where we sell books, and trying to decipher the mystical machinations behind why books do or don't sell. I won't share specific numbers publicly, but I would like to start a tradition of celebrating our bestsellers each June and December. Below, you'll find our top 10 bestsellers for the first half of 2017, as well as a list of our top 10 bestsellers of all time. Is your favorite on these lists? Let us know in the comments!
A few notes on these rankings:
A few notes on these rankings:
- This list takes into account all vendors (Amazon, iTunes, convention tables, etc.), from all countries, in both ebook and paperback.
- Vendors may not report sales for one to three months after the actual sale, so even though I'm calling this list "first half of 2017," it contains numbers ranging from October 2016 to May 2017, depending on vendor reports.
- Some of these are books that (understandably) sell quite well during Christmas season, and less during other times of the year. See above.
- Several of our 2016 and early 2017 books had very successful launches, but it may take some time for them to catch up to the books that have been out for a few years. We believe in cultivating the long tail.
Sarena Ulibarri
Editor-in-Chief
Editor-in-Chief
Top 10 Bestsellers, 1st Half 2017
 1 | #1 BEYOND THE GLASS SLIPPER: Ten Neglected Fairy Tales to Fall in Love With Introduction & Annotations by Kate Wolford Released April 2013 |  2 |
 3 |  4 |
 5 |  6 | #6 HE SEES YOU WHEN HE'S CREEPIN': Tales of Krampus Anthology Edited by Kate Wolford Released November 2016 |
 7 |  8 |
 9 |  10 |
Top 10 All-Time Bestsellers, 2012-present
 1  6 |  2  7 |  3  8 |  4  9 |  5  10 |
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