What is the target market for your ‘best-seller’?
In some sectors relatively few sales can put the book in the top ten for that sector.
I can’t see this book at the sales level of the Da Vinci Code, for example, and I don’t see Hollywood fighting over the movie rights. ;)
Hawking’s ‘A Brief History of Time’ is #3,081 in Books BUT-
#1 in Books > Science > Astronomy > Cosmology
#1 in Books > Science > Physics > Cosmology
#1 in Books > Science > Astronomy > Universe
So—Define the category you are writing for.
Then try some test marketing to samples of that target readership who haven’t already read your writing here and elsewhere.
The big reason for this is that you might get a very different reaction from sample marketing than the reaction you get from the few hundred enthusiasts who read you here. The results you get will guide you in constructing the book to suit your intended market. There is a difference between writing just what you want to write and producing a product that people want to buy.
BillK
Eliezer Yudkowsky wrote: So remember the Litany Against Being Transported Into An Alternate Universe:
If I’m going to be happy anywhere, Or achieve greatness anywhere, Or learn true secrets anywhere, Or save the world anywhere, Or feel strongly anywhere, Or help people anywhere,
I may as well do it in reality.
No. You are describing the end of humanity.
Uploaded into virtual reality, everyone can be a hero.
Why go back to reality?