Virginia Morton, author of “Marching Through Culpeper,” to lead a 2-hour walking tour on July 24, 2010, to benefit the Museum of Culpeper history.

Self-published book sells 10,000 copies
By Catherine Amos
Published by the Culpeper Star-Exponent: April 27, 2008
Local independent author Virginia Morton has sold more than 10,000 copies of her novel, “Marching Through Culpeper.”
To put that in context, the average book in America sells about 500 copies, according to “Publisher’s Weekly” magazine in 2006, and fiction is considered successful if it sells 5,000 copies.
In 2000, Morton self-published the first edition of her work of historical fiction, set in Culpeper during the Civil War. She credits her readers for spreading the praise about her book …