I Don't Talk About My Book Enough

Less than 0.1% of the global population will ever write a book. Not publish — write.

Someone told me that statistic recently, at an event where I talked about my book.

Around 0.0086% are published authors.

Over 50% of U.S. writers are women, which is major, major progress.

And when we filter by Black women?

We make up 4% to 7% of published authors in America.

Regardless of the exact stats, which are changing all the time and differ based on where you collect them —

I’m in very rare company as a published author.

And a self-published author at that.

You know what’s wild, though?

As I went to type ‘self-published’, what I first wrote was ‘selfish.’

And I can’t blame that on autocorrect. That was 100% my subconscious at work.