Well, the momentum from April definitely carried over into May. I had my best month so far this year. I'm still stunned and over the moon over how my signing and book promos helped sales. They're tapering off now, but such is the ebb and flow of sales. I'm just happy that I got the sales spike in the first place!
I've finished the third book in the series and it's with the beta readers now. I hate this part. I feel so useless. There's nothing I can do until they finish with it, so I feel like I'm just wasting space until they get it back to me. I've been toying with the idea of taking a little break from the series, but I think I've decided to just power through and finish it up. However, I'm drafting some ideas for break-off novellas centered around each individual character in the series. Old Hack suggested it in another thread and I think that it might be the answer to my need for a break. We'll see. If nothing else, it might be fun to put out shorter works and see how they do compared to full-length books.
I did have one nasty little comment made to me this week, and I wanted to see if anyone else has run into this in their journey. I made a comment on my personal Facebook page about how I needed to get my next project started because I was miserable not writing. A friend of mine shocked me when she commented, “Or get a job.” She meant it as a joke, but I was taken aback by the general attitude that writing is not 'real' work. I know many people don't consider art important, but this kind of threw me for a loop...and made me question whether or not I was just being naïve and immature in thinking that writing can be a viable career. Do people look at writers the way they look at sports players? That we're just grown-ups still playing games? I know my siblings think of my writing that way, but I just assumed it was because I'm the baby and they still think of me as such. Anyone else run into this?
Well, here are the results for May:
May Sales for Next Exit, 3 Miles:
Kindle: 14
CreateSpace: 0
Hand Sold: 0
Total Sold: 14
Grand Total to: 88
May Sales for Next Exit, Pay Toll:
Kindle: 19
CreateSpace: 0
Hand Sold: 0
Total Sold: 19
Grand Total to: 63
I've finished the third book in the series and it's with the beta readers now. I hate this part. I feel so useless. There's nothing I can do until they finish with it, so I feel like I'm just wasting space until they get it back to me. I've been toying with the idea of taking a little break from the series, but I think I've decided to just power through and finish it up. However, I'm drafting some ideas for break-off novellas centered around each individual character in the series. Old Hack suggested it in another thread and I think that it might be the answer to my need for a break. We'll see. If nothing else, it might be fun to put out shorter works and see how they do compared to full-length books.
I did have one nasty little comment made to me this week, and I wanted to see if anyone else has run into this in their journey. I made a comment on my personal Facebook page about how I needed to get my next project started because I was miserable not writing. A friend of mine shocked me when she commented, “Or get a job.” She meant it as a joke, but I was taken aback by the general attitude that writing is not 'real' work. I know many people don't consider art important, but this kind of threw me for a loop...and made me question whether or not I was just being naïve and immature in thinking that writing can be a viable career. Do people look at writers the way they look at sports players? That we're just grown-ups still playing games? I know my siblings think of my writing that way, but I just assumed it was because I'm the baby and they still think of me as such. Anyone else run into this?
Well, here are the results for May:
May Sales for Next Exit, 3 Miles:
Kindle: 14
CreateSpace: 0
Hand Sold: 0
Total Sold: 14
Grand Total to: 88
May Sales for Next Exit, Pay Toll:
Kindle: 19
CreateSpace: 0
Hand Sold: 0
Total Sold: 19
Grand Total to: 63