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 [...]
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 [...]
Scath | July 7, 2010
I read three different blog posts by traditional publishing employee types last night, and in each, those who self-publish were called ‘losers’. You know, because EVERYBODY who chooses to self-publish has been rejected by traditional publishers hundreds or thousands of times because their work ‘just wasn’t ready’, or plain sucked and should never try to crawl out of [...]
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 [...]
Scath | July 4, 2010
Smashwords has partnered with Wattpad, which is billed as the “the world’s most popular ebook community” and “a social network for writers to connect with readers” according to the press release issued. First glance, this was my opinion: While a new partnership is great news, has anyone actually checked out the ‘What’s Hot’ section on [...]
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