…and scheduled an actual author’s photo session for tomorrow. Personally, I still think it’s a not a horrible idea to stick to the icon – I’ve watched people be vaguely disappointed to finally meet me in person for two decades – but better disappointing than not taken seriously, I suppose. This is one more step along the journey of being a Real, Live Author.
Also, I need some new shirts.
#commissionearned
I think this is what the Substack is going to be used for, mostly. It’s convenient, and not tied to this particular website.
I think this is permanent, but I’m not sure. Audible is apparently reducing prices across the board, so their loss is your gain. FROZEN DREAMS is the only book I have in audiobook form right now, but who knows? If it starts selling, maybe I can figure out how to budget audiobooks for my future novels, too…
Moe Lane
#commissionearned
TINSEL RAIN‘s on Kindle sale for the first time, you see. 99 cents for the next week, starting now! Tell all your friends to buy their copy today!
#commissionearned
…when searching for books like mine? Like most of my good ideas, this one comes from my wife: it occurred to her that I should ask people who have already bought my books to tell me what terms would have worked. Which was better than my brainstorm, which was to try terms like “cheap books that had a real editor,” and suchlike.
…Which is a good term, once you point it out. When you don’t? Well, punching it into Amazon got me a bunch of stuff for magic wands. So if you make those, try advertising under that search term. I dunno: I just hit the clicky-board until the words show up on the magic screen.
Amazon has this entire set of courses, and everything. I possibly should have done it before actually trying to buy ads on Amazon earlier, because I’ve already realized one thing that I did wrong. Fortunately, it was the kind of mistake that, when you make it, you don’t actually spend any money…
Moe Lane
PS: My books make excellent Christmas presents!
#commissionearned
If I manage that, I should be able to say that I’ve made an average of $500/per year from Amazon sales of my books since I started up on this. What does that mean, in the larger scheme of things? …Honestly, not that much. I’ve had a really good year generally already. But the overarching goal here is to achieve a revenue stream that will let me publish at least one novel a year on my own; and to do that, I need to hustle. This is part of the hustle.
So. Buy my books! They make awesome Christmas gifts.
Moe Lane
PS: I also need to start up a store in 2023 that will let me sell people signed copies of my books. For that I’m gonna need to do some research, though. I don’t have the money to pay somebody to do it for me.
#commissionearned
Not a paid Substack, though. As I’m imagining it, I’ll use it as a clearinghouse for some of the stuff I write regularly. That should be useful, right?
I put it up, on the random chance that Twitter might blow up and I wanted to lock in the name. It looks like Twitter is not blowing up, though – but does this thing have any use anyway? Lots of people use Substack, but I’m not really on fire about it. Although possibly I should be.
Suggestions welcome.
Stellar Con is tomorrow at the APGFCU Arena in Bel Air, MD, 11 AM to 5 PM. I’ll be at the spot on the map below, selling my books! If you’re in the area, stop on by!
