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alexandraerinSo at least Friday doesn't feel like Monday this week? It's interesting to me how my idea of what day it is always gets worst at the end of the week. It's like the weekend resets my calibration, but it starts drifting as soon as the week starts.
News For Today
Six AAEs sold. The previews had two errors (so far, though they may be the extent of it) that made it through proofreading and one error in the Sans copy that I induced myself with an incautious edit after proofreading. I arranged the proofing a little late in the game for the preview; there will be time for more scrutiny on the finished product. I'm not overly concerned... despite any unwise claims an industry partisan might make to the contrary, one does find errors in professionally edited and traditionally published manuscripts, and an e-document is easy enough to amend and re-issue.
I waswise enough experienced enough at messing this sort of thing up to have procedures for record-keeping and easy, brain-fog-proof fulfillment in place before I started doing this. All the AAE purchasers have been sent an email confirmation with their number and the details of the order to ensure that the name and such are correct. This information is also in a spreadsheet that lists them all in order. When the book is assembled in its final form I can go down the list and prepare an email to each one with the attachment(s), to go out when the book is launched.
I haven't sent separate confirmations to the people who pre-bought the standard edition... my thought is that PayPal's email notifications should be sufficient proof of order when there are no personal details. Right now there are only a few and they've each elected to pay more than the minimum, but I don't want to start a precedent based on that and then have five hundred 75 cent orders that need to be addressed. Before my next LitSnacks project... probably before this one launches... I'm going to have a more efficient email solution in place. I'm not exactly doing everything by hand, but there are things that can be automated.
I'm learning as I'm doing things here... I put a lot of planning into this project, but one part of that plan was "Keep an open mind and open eyes for ways that I could do something better next time, because there are things that won't become apparent until I'm actually in the thick of it."
Interesting sidenote from my spreadsheeting... because I'm tracking the gross and net on my sales, I can see that as of right now I'm keeping 93% of the money that's spent on these books. That number might trend upwards towards 94% if most of the purchasers are in the U.S. and buying the AAE or down towards 90% as more people buy the standard copy, but either way it's a darn good rate.
Personal Assessment
Doin' okay. Slept more than four hours. Looking forward to some sunny weather next week.
Dreams From Last Night
Indistinct.
Random Link
Kickstarter is a site that's pretty much all about the crowdfunding. I've seen a couple of projects (a roleplaying game book and a music album, if I recall correctly) being financed through them. It allows for "all-or-nothing funding", where a goal must be reached in order for transactions to be completed, so you can get all the money needed to start a big project (or even one that's not huge but too big for you to do on your own) but nobody loses out if it doesn't come together.
As an example of a Kickstarted project, here's a refillable bamboo notebook project... Jack sent me a link to this yesterday and while I don't remember what his total was I seem to recall thinking that the poor guy had quite a ways to go and was nearing his deadline, but now I check it today and he's over the top. This is clearly a guy with a business plan and the skills needed to pull it off, which has to help.
Maybe when it's time to do print editions of collected LitSnacks or Tales of MU, I'll use Kickstarter to raise funds to get things like proper, professional designs and a print run that brings the price down. It would be easy enough to build a pre-order into it, as this gentleman has done with his rewards.
Plans For Today
I've got a pretty important chapter of Tales of MU to write, so that's job one... Wednesday's update would still be a treat, I'm sure, given that it saved people waiting four days to resolve the tension from the previous chapters, but I doubt the folks whose Amazon subscriptions earned it would feel properly rewarded if I kept everyone waiting five days for the resolution to that chapter.
I'm also keeping an eye out for any more feedback on the initial version of the preview downloads and will be filing any more orders that come in while I'm working. Jack is off on a fun little get-away this weekend and my housemate will be going to work in about an hour so I've got a nice, big chunk of time to myself this evening in which I can sit down and get things done.
News For Today
Six AAEs sold. The previews had two errors (so far, though they may be the extent of it) that made it through proofreading and one error in the Sans copy that I induced myself with an incautious edit after proofreading. I arranged the proofing a little late in the game for the preview; there will be time for more scrutiny on the finished product. I'm not overly concerned... despite any unwise claims an industry partisan might make to the contrary, one does find errors in professionally edited and traditionally published manuscripts, and an e-document is easy enough to amend and re-issue.
I was
I haven't sent separate confirmations to the people who pre-bought the standard edition... my thought is that PayPal's email notifications should be sufficient proof of order when there are no personal details. Right now there are only a few and they've each elected to pay more than the minimum, but I don't want to start a precedent based on that and then have five hundred 75 cent orders that need to be addressed. Before my next LitSnacks project... probably before this one launches... I'm going to have a more efficient email solution in place. I'm not exactly doing everything by hand, but there are things that can be automated.
I'm learning as I'm doing things here... I put a lot of planning into this project, but one part of that plan was "Keep an open mind and open eyes for ways that I could do something better next time, because there are things that won't become apparent until I'm actually in the thick of it."
Interesting sidenote from my spreadsheeting... because I'm tracking the gross and net on my sales, I can see that as of right now I'm keeping 93% of the money that's spent on these books. That number might trend upwards towards 94% if most of the purchasers are in the U.S. and buying the AAE or down towards 90% as more people buy the standard copy, but either way it's a darn good rate.
Personal Assessment
Doin' okay. Slept more than four hours. Looking forward to some sunny weather next week.
Dreams From Last Night
Indistinct.
Random Link
Kickstarter is a site that's pretty much all about the crowdfunding. I've seen a couple of projects (a roleplaying game book and a music album, if I recall correctly) being financed through them. It allows for "all-or-nothing funding", where a goal must be reached in order for transactions to be completed, so you can get all the money needed to start a big project (or even one that's not huge but too big for you to do on your own) but nobody loses out if it doesn't come together.
As an example of a Kickstarted project, here's a refillable bamboo notebook project... Jack sent me a link to this yesterday and while I don't remember what his total was I seem to recall thinking that the poor guy had quite a ways to go and was nearing his deadline, but now I check it today and he's over the top. This is clearly a guy with a business plan and the skills needed to pull it off, which has to help.
Maybe when it's time to do print editions of collected LitSnacks or Tales of MU, I'll use Kickstarter to raise funds to get things like proper, professional designs and a print run that brings the price down. It would be easy enough to build a pre-order into it, as this gentleman has done with his rewards.
Plans For Today
I've got a pretty important chapter of Tales of MU to write, so that's job one... Wednesday's update would still be a treat, I'm sure, given that it saved people waiting four days to resolve the tension from the previous chapters, but I doubt the folks whose Amazon subscriptions earned it would feel properly rewarded if I kept everyone waiting five days for the resolution to that chapter.
I'm also keeping an eye out for any more feedback on the initial version of the preview downloads and will be filing any more orders that come in while I'm working. Jack is off on a fun little get-away this weekend and my housemate will be going to work in about an hour so I've got a nice, big chunk of time to myself this evening in which I can sit down and get things done.
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on 2011-02-12 02:48 am (UTC)I don't know whether this is the best place to put this, but I just read your Q/A re:marriage. You are the only other person that I've ever heard say that marriage shouldn't be a legal/state issue. I've been saying that since I thought about it.
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on 2011-02-12 03:50 am (UTC)