Thursday, May 9th
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alexandraerinThe Daily Report
I'm thinking about charting where and how I do my writing (i.e., what motivational methods I'm employing), because I'm starting to notice patterns about things like what kind of errors I make and with what frequency they happen. I've known for some time that I'm more likely to make homophone errors when I'm speaking as I write. I seem to get weirder errors when I'm listening to music in a playlist rather than an instrumental piece on loop. It would be interesting to see if I get different results writing on the floor vs. in the bath vs. at an actual... <LITTLE MERMAID VOICE>what's that word? Oh, desk.</LITTLE MERMAID VOICE>.
Without any pushing behind it at all, the first tales of MU ebook has made about $10 in royalties this month so far. This is pretty consistent with its performance of the past couple weeks, where it sold a copy about every other day. It's way too early to call this a trend, but if it keeps going at that level... well, a dollar a day isn't a fortune, but it's three times what I had been making on Amazon before, which is an average of $10 a month, period.
My expectation is that if I don't do anything else then that number would peter out over time, though what the rate of decay would be, I can't guess. My other expectation is that continuing to release ebooks will help sustain the rate of recurring sales for each one in the series.
Before I started getting into the meat of the commentary, I was optimistic that I would be able to get the second ebook out before I leave for the con. Now I think that June is possible, but I'm going to officially aim for July because my life/schedule for July is more predictable. Either month beats my initially pessimistic estimate of "Spring 2014".
I'm thinking the price of book 2 might be a bit higher than book 1. The text of the book is longer, the text of the commentary is going to be longer even in proportion, and there's more work going into the commentary. It won't be more than $3.99 or $4.99... what I'm going to do when I get to the end is figure out exactly how much longer the end product is and then make my decision. I'm suspicious of the notion that the absolute value of a book is in its length, but it's hard to weigh effort.
The State of the Me
Doing well.
Plans for Today
This afternoon is a writing day.
I'm thinking about charting where and how I do my writing (i.e., what motivational methods I'm employing), because I'm starting to notice patterns about things like what kind of errors I make and with what frequency they happen. I've known for some time that I'm more likely to make homophone errors when I'm speaking as I write. I seem to get weirder errors when I'm listening to music in a playlist rather than an instrumental piece on loop. It would be interesting to see if I get different results writing on the floor vs. in the bath vs. at an actual... <LITTLE MERMAID VOICE>what's that word? Oh, desk.</LITTLE MERMAID VOICE>.
Without any pushing behind it at all, the first tales of MU ebook has made about $10 in royalties this month so far. This is pretty consistent with its performance of the past couple weeks, where it sold a copy about every other day. It's way too early to call this a trend, but if it keeps going at that level... well, a dollar a day isn't a fortune, but it's three times what I had been making on Amazon before, which is an average of $10 a month, period.
My expectation is that if I don't do anything else then that number would peter out over time, though what the rate of decay would be, I can't guess. My other expectation is that continuing to release ebooks will help sustain the rate of recurring sales for each one in the series.
Before I started getting into the meat of the commentary, I was optimistic that I would be able to get the second ebook out before I leave for the con. Now I think that June is possible, but I'm going to officially aim for July because my life/schedule for July is more predictable. Either month beats my initially pessimistic estimate of "Spring 2014".
I'm thinking the price of book 2 might be a bit higher than book 1. The text of the book is longer, the text of the commentary is going to be longer even in proportion, and there's more work going into the commentary. It won't be more than $3.99 or $4.99... what I'm going to do when I get to the end is figure out exactly how much longer the end product is and then make my decision. I'm suspicious of the notion that the absolute value of a book is in its length, but it's hard to weigh effort.
The State of the Me
Doing well.
Plans for Today
This afternoon is a writing day.