My Self-Publishing Journey

Hello, I'm Emily, I'm 13, and a couple of days ago I decided to finally go ahead and self-publish a 2,500 short story I wrote onto Kindle.
I thought I'd go ahead and put up stuff on here as I market it and all that, as I've really enjoyed reading others self-publishing diaries - I hope mine isn't too horrid in comparison, haha.
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00F9H1G2U/?tag=absowrit-20 <that's the link to my book, as soon as I remember how I will be updating my signature with it.
So far, I have sold 12 copies, four to friends. The other eight are probably because I'm donating most of the proceeds to a cancer foundation, and so they've tweeted about it. I know 12 copies isn't much, but considering I haven't really done any marketing, and it's only been a couple of days, I'm pretty happy.
I recently joined Pinterest & have been doing more Twitter promotion & will start up a Facebook author page soon, so stay tuned to see how that will help with my sales...

Thanks for the welcome & congrats!

Yes, my dad helped, for the tax information & all that stuff, since I'm a minor.

Yeah, I'm using my real name for the copyright, and a pen name for the rest of it - that might lead to some confusion, haha!

Thanks, Svader!

Since my first post, I've sold two more copies, one is my second one sold in the UK, the other is US.
I also joined Authorgraph, I'm not expecting to get many requests, I think it's pretty cool, though - http://www.authorgraph.com/authors/EmilyWritesALot.

Celeste & Gingerwoman, thanks to both of you! Ginger, thanks for the compliment & the suggestion about the Facebook page, I will definitely look into that.

Thanks all of you!
Mag, that's definitely something to look into, thank you so much for the suggestion, I will definitely try that.

Sarah, thank you, I would do that, but I'm homeschooled, thank you for the suggestion, though.

I noticed it's been a few days since I last posted here so I thought I'd put up a quick update - I've only sold a few copies since last time I posted, but right now I am #3 in Teen & Young Adult Short Stories on Amazon, which is my highest ranking ever(before my highhest was #6) so I'm really happy about that.

Wow, I haven't checked in on here in a while!
Well, I have an update - my short story has been free for a day and will be free for the remainder of the day, in an effort to possibly increase visibility and/or maybe get a review from it, and I've given away 52 free copies so far(not including a few here and there outside of the US, it's pretty cool because I normally don't get foreign downloads), not too big of a number, but it's pretty good, and 52 more than zero.