Scath | August 21, 2010
Start with 32. That’s how many months it’s been since I self-pubbed my first ebook. Next is 500, minus 7 (1.4%) returns = 493, the number of ebooks I’ve sold to this point. $1,212.20 is how much I’ve earned from sales, after fees and distribution splits, but before editing expense and self-employment taxes. Freebies and coupon [...]
Category: Self-Pubbing |
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Tags: Babble, e-books, self publishing, writing
Scath | July 14, 2010
Upon receiving my first sale of Feral Intensity (which was my first self-published title), I began the ‘tradition’ of racing to wherever my SO is and doing a happy dance. I think it stopped amusing him around my 20th sale, but oh well. Amazon no longer allows us to share any information from our DTP [...]
Category: Bloggings, Self-Pubbing |
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Tags: Amazon, Babble, e-books, erotica, paranormal, readers, romance, sales, self publishing, Smashwords
Scath | July 6, 2010
Last night, I set some goals for completing various titles in progress. This may prove boring – you’ve been warned.
Category: Bloggings |
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Tags: e-books, Goals, word counts, writing
Scath | July 5, 2010
Come November, I’ll have been at this indie author/self-publishing pursuit for three years. I don’t expect I’ll know much more about how it all works by then than I currently do, because it’s a puzzling business. Starting out with original fiction back in June 2007 (okay, there were a few instances prior to that, but [...]
Category: Bloggings |
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Tags: #webfic, Amazon, Babble, Challenges, e-books, Goals, readers, self publishing, Smashwords, word counts, writing
Scath | June 23, 2010
I seriously don’t get the results of my month long experiment. The experiment was placing two of my ebook titles on sale for 99 cents, dropping them down from $5.25 and $4.75 respectively. During the month that they were at 99 cents, I sold one copy of the first, and seven of the second. I [...]
Category: Self-Pubbing |
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Tags: Amazon, Babble, e-books, readers, sales, self publishing, Smashwords, writing