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new collection coming soon
Wow, I have let this blog sleep. On the plus side, everything relating to my self-publishing activities is completely different now anyway, so it's a fine opportunity to start from scratch. But first:
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The Plan
Just a quick note here that I haven't forgotten about finishing up this little blog series here. I've got a new project coming out in the next couple of weeks, and I'll be a lot better informed once I see how the release goes. Thanks for the patience, everybody. -
Le Project continued
Picking up where we left off, $700 a year in the hole and adding in other revenue sources.
SHORT STORY SALES/CONTESTSAs ever, this is a complete crapshoot. It's a rare year that I don't pick up at least twenty bucks from short story sales. Every so often I pick up a couple hundred bucks, but no more than that. Let's be generous and say I pick up a ( Read more... ) -
Further updates on The Project
So when last we left our hero, he (meaning me) had fixed (if not unchangeable) expenses or about $105 dollars a month, $1260 a year. Time to talk about revenues. These break down into four, sort of five, different food groups.
PATREON
SHORT STORY SALES/CONTESTS
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Update on The Project
Those windmills think they've gotten the better of Brendan Detzner, but let's see if they're still smirking after this next pass. Onward, noble steed ( Read more... ) -
self-publishing best practices update
Hey folks! I've been a busy bee getting my ducks in a row for my next book release, and I'm realizing that my list of expenses for a new book releases is very different now than the one I posted a few months ago, and considerably cheaper. I know there are a few friends of mine keeping track of what I'm doing, and I want to make sure that the ( Read more... ) -
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See, this is why I'm not great at blogging. I can go weeks without thinking of anything I care to share and when I do think of something worth talking about briefly it takes me a week to finish talking about it. Anyway, the more that I think about all those other bullet points that were on my mind, they mostly tend to boil down to this:
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Regrouping part 3
So like I was saying, the problem with my book sales is that I desperately hoped they would look something like this:
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And was willing to live with it if they looked something like this:
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Regrouping part two
So picking up where we left off, I've released four books since I first decided to start taking self-publishing seriously. In order of their release:
Beasts, my second short story collection, released in print and in e-book.
Millersville, my standalone social technically-science-fiction-but-not-robots-and-jetpacks novel set in a maximum security ( Read more... ) -
one more on the pile
Something that's been on my mind a lot lately. The relevant section starts just before the two minute mark (although it's all interesting):
If you're not familiar, DJ Shadow is essentially a collage artist. The majority of his work consists of pieces of other people's work arranged together. The clip is him exploring the gigantic secret basement ( Read more... )
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