Not gonna lie on that one. Sales went through the floor, in all categories. The good news is that I have four venues in the next few months, starting with the MD Renn Faire in a week. After that, it’s back-to-back cons a month later, and a new one in November. I think that the mix of old and new sites will be good for sales, and of course the new novel is coming out soon.
After that… well, I’ve had good luck with Kickstarters. The trick is to just keep getting on with things.
#commissionearned
Did a chapter, got wordcount on the novella, managed to keep myself from starting a new novella: I need to designate times in the day where writing happens. It’s as simple as that. …It’s not actually simple, but if it’s going to get done then I need to get it done.
Moe Lane
PS: The mailing list advertising thing… had a 33% ROI. That’s direct sales, though. If everybody who bought MORGAN BAROD in the last week turns around and buys, say, FROZEN DREAMS then we’re doing this again in a few months. In case you haven’t guessed: some of this stuff is complicated.
#commissionearned
Lord, wasn’t that fun.
That’s about half the book, thank goodness. If I buckle down on it, I can get the revised text to the readers by Friday or Sunday. If you’ve volunteered for that and haven’t heard from me by now, I regret to say that it’s because I haven’t gotten off of my butt yet and emailed anybody back. Flogging myself back into action is one of the things I’m working on, this week.
#commissionearned
…I’m going to blame that title on the endorphins. To misquote somebody or other, there is nothing quite so thrilling as finishing up a procedure where they go deep into your tooth to get all the nerves — and realizing that there was no pain during the procedure. Truly, the state of the art has improved greatly since the days of my youth: back then, ‘root canal’ was a pretty good analogy for ‘torture.’ Or possibly just a euphemism.
Still: buy my books! Root canals are also way cheaper than they used to be, but they still ain’t cheap.
Moe Lane
PS: Posting may still be weird today. I have no idea how I’m going to be feeling when the local anesthesia wears off.
#commissionearned
I have to remind myself that hating your manuscript at this stage of the process is a perfectly natural thing, that many writers do. I’ve been here before. I will be, again. I just want it done…
Huzzah!
Found here. Said migration shouldn’t take too long; but then, that’s what they said about the First World War. Something could go pear-shaped. Hopefully it won’t, but it might, so go buy two books! Just to be on the safe side.
I mostly concentrated on looking into whether I can put together another chapbook: it turns out, I can. Between the two Kindle Vella stories (which I can publish on KDP, after thirty days*) an older story, and something I did last fall, I have a good 60K words there. More than usual! I’m waiting to hear back from an artist before putting together a draft for revisions/edits/so forth.
As for the next novel? Yeah, I’m mucking about with that after dinner. I probably will rechapter the text tonight, then start growing literary connective tissue. I feel a lot better about this project, now. You gotta do the work.
