if it's a matter of Musa's editing having glaring issues and I'm assuming by Amadan's wow she saw some, I don't see them.
How have your sales been?I've read a few Musa books by now. I've not yet been disappointed. I don't recall seeing any glaring errors, either.
As for my own experience, it was actually the editing that sold me on Musa. I had a wonderful experience with my editor. My story was made stronger by the relationship. I am about to head into edits for my second Musa novel. Both of my Musas are literary.
I just checked the Look Inside feature on my first Musa novel, and I could not find any glaring issues. I know there are at least two mistakes in the manuscript...I caught them when I first read through the print version, of course. But I have to be honest, I find errors in every book I read. I'm a perfectionist. I'm thrilled with my Musa experience thus far.
Musa's not my first publisher, but it has been my best experience with a publisher to date.
How have your sales been?
If anyone wants to PM me I'll be happy to share details on my novella sales. I will say that I have finally made back the money I spent having bookmarks printed for giveaways. It took a year.
While I don't think my income is anyone's business but my own, I will say my best-selling book is a Musa book written for their shared world series. Shifter's Dance was a paranormal bestseller at ARe for over a week, and it sold more in its opening weekend than Two in Winter sold in it's first quarter.
While I don't have sales figures for all of January yet, based on the numbers I *do* have I would guess its sales since release two months ago are approx. 600 copies.
Sales are important to consider so I will chime in here. I've had consistent sales every month since my book released (and I choose to keep exact numbers to myself and my husband, thank you). Aside from the initial launch, I have not done much self-promotion to get those sales. They've come about mostly through word-of-mouth from people who read the book and liked it enough to recommend it.
What constitutes a good level of sales is difficult to define, as so much depends on genre and who you're comparing your figures to: "good" for one publisher might well be laughable for another.
Agreed, but from what I've seen over the course of many years in terms of sales from e only publishers (not affiliated with one of the "big 6") KaitlinBevis is doing pretty well with a YA title.
If someone wishes to correct me on that score, have at it.
I'd assume that solid sales for a US publisher would be higher than I'm used to, and relatively new presses, like Musa, wouldn't do as well simply because they've yet not had time to build a decent reader-base.
Acceptance today from Liz Silver for the Pan YA GLBT imprint for my novel Where No One Knows, about a transgender boy who is kicked out of his home... for being psychic.
I submitted it on December 21, after meeting and speaking with Liz at a conference, so that's a pretty good turnaround time for a submission, I think.