Getting some impetus
I don't know if it's good or bad yet, but I've checked the Amazon sales rank for the album a couple times today. I don't think #88 is that bad of a rank, really, especially for a relative-unknown such as myself.
Then again, I don't know the kind of volume that Amazon gets on weekends. It could be that #s 1-87 sold two over the last hour and I only sold one. But hey--a sale is a sale, and I'm not going to turn that down.
A friend of mine asked me what made me decide to release this stuff now. It's partially financial--I could certainly use the income. But it's also partially, if not completely, motivational in nature. Now I want to write again, but I also want to write something that is "marketable." It's hard knowing exactly what people want. Feedback forms or means provide that info, but they're usually one-sided: you'll either get those people who don't want you to change at all, or those people who want you to go in a completely different direction. Artists continually change, and that's something that a lot of audiences don't understand. While they themselves change, it's a slow & gradual one that they don't "see" because they're right in the thick of it. Artists can provide a comfort zone--a means of re-connecting with youth (or perceived youth).
OK, diatribe over. It's either nap time or writing time...
Then again, I don't know the kind of volume that Amazon gets on weekends. It could be that #s 1-87 sold two over the last hour and I only sold one. But hey--a sale is a sale, and I'm not going to turn that down.
A friend of mine asked me what made me decide to release this stuff now. It's partially financial--I could certainly use the income. But it's also partially, if not completely, motivational in nature. Now I want to write again, but I also want to write something that is "marketable." It's hard knowing exactly what people want. Feedback forms or means provide that info, but they're usually one-sided: you'll either get those people who don't want you to change at all, or those people who want you to go in a completely different direction. Artists continually change, and that's something that a lot of audiences don't understand. While they themselves change, it's a slow & gradual one that they don't "see" because they're right in the thick of it. Artists can provide a comfort zone--a means of re-connecting with youth (or perceived youth).
OK, diatribe over. It's either nap time or writing time...