Wednesday, August 21st
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alexandraerinThe Daily Report
Still at my parents' house. We might get some rainstorms that will cool things off a little for a couple of days, but the 10 day forecast is now showing 90 degree temperatures basically for the rest of August, which is disappearing much more quickly than I'm comfortable with, though that always seems to happen eventually. If I end up staying here past this weekend, I'm going to go home to retrieve a computer that I can handle e-book formatting on.
I'm on track to have my second-best month on Amazon, tied with the month the first MU e-book came out and I was still getting a bunch of short story sales from my push for reviews. If I add in my Sellfy sales then this is my best month for e-book sales, not counting the release of Gift of the Bad Guy.
I'm not exactly swimming in vast oceans of data here, but this bodes well for my theory that each MU book released will tend to result in a larger immediate lift and more income over time than the previous one. This might seem counterintuitive since someone who didn't buy book 1 isn't going to suddenly buy book 3, but each new release is another chance to catch eyes... there were still regular site visitors who didn't know that book 1 was out when book 2 was being put to bed, and I'd wager that's still true even with a big button on the side of the front page. Also, the more books I have that are selling on Amazon, the more likely for one of them to pop up in someone's recommendations.
I wish I had a chance to keep this momentum up and get book 3 out in the next month or two, but I don't think it's realistic to even put that down as an optimistic goal. September's going to be a real scramble, October's going to be a month of upheaval, adjustment, and settling in. I am optimistic that I'll be able to do the next Omnibus before I move as it's already 95% done, and that after I'm settled in the colder months will give me a chance to really build up some steam on the commentary for the next few MU e-books.
But right now, these are the plans of someone hiding in a basement on a tiny netbook.
The State of the Me
I slept awesomely last night. I was actually up at 7 this morning, which gave me a rare chance to fully wake up and relax a bit before starting my work day at a respectably responsible hour.
Plans For Today
Yesterday I was kind of getting comfortable with this place. Not that it's uncomfortable -- it's a very nicely furnished basement. It's just that trying to get down to writing in a new place is always tricky. So I spent the whole day doing nothing but that. Wrote a couple blog posts, wrote some AWW stuff, took some stabs at starting the MU chapter for today... I don't think I'm going to keep any of that, but it's useful to have gotten them out. Even if I start from a blank page I won't be starting from ground zero.
Today's a posting day, so this afternoon (when my fiction-brain engages most easily) is going to be given over to the chapter. The morning belongs to AWW, though. I can't do anything more complicated than basic word processing and blogging on this thing, and my mind is bursting with ideas.
Still at my parents' house. We might get some rainstorms that will cool things off a little for a couple of days, but the 10 day forecast is now showing 90 degree temperatures basically for the rest of August, which is disappearing much more quickly than I'm comfortable with, though that always seems to happen eventually. If I end up staying here past this weekend, I'm going to go home to retrieve a computer that I can handle e-book formatting on.
I'm on track to have my second-best month on Amazon, tied with the month the first MU e-book came out and I was still getting a bunch of short story sales from my push for reviews. If I add in my Sellfy sales then this is my best month for e-book sales, not counting the release of Gift of the Bad Guy.
I'm not exactly swimming in vast oceans of data here, but this bodes well for my theory that each MU book released will tend to result in a larger immediate lift and more income over time than the previous one. This might seem counterintuitive since someone who didn't buy book 1 isn't going to suddenly buy book 3, but each new release is another chance to catch eyes... there were still regular site visitors who didn't know that book 1 was out when book 2 was being put to bed, and I'd wager that's still true even with a big button on the side of the front page. Also, the more books I have that are selling on Amazon, the more likely for one of them to pop up in someone's recommendations.
I wish I had a chance to keep this momentum up and get book 3 out in the next month or two, but I don't think it's realistic to even put that down as an optimistic goal. September's going to be a real scramble, October's going to be a month of upheaval, adjustment, and settling in. I am optimistic that I'll be able to do the next Omnibus before I move as it's already 95% done, and that after I'm settled in the colder months will give me a chance to really build up some steam on the commentary for the next few MU e-books.
But right now, these are the plans of someone hiding in a basement on a tiny netbook.
The State of the Me
I slept awesomely last night. I was actually up at 7 this morning, which gave me a rare chance to fully wake up and relax a bit before starting my work day at a respectably responsible hour.
Plans For Today
Yesterday I was kind of getting comfortable with this place. Not that it's uncomfortable -- it's a very nicely furnished basement. It's just that trying to get down to writing in a new place is always tricky. So I spent the whole day doing nothing but that. Wrote a couple blog posts, wrote some AWW stuff, took some stabs at starting the MU chapter for today... I don't think I'm going to keep any of that, but it's useful to have gotten them out. Even if I start from a blank page I won't be starting from ground zero.
Today's a posting day, so this afternoon (when my fiction-brain engages most easily) is going to be given over to the chapter. The morning belongs to AWW, though. I can't do anything more complicated than basic word processing and blogging on this thing, and my mind is bursting with ideas.