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Since I'm logged on and it's the end of the first quarter of the year...
As usual I've deviated from my plans for the year already. I started work on the new fantasy series, but then realized that writing to market really just doesn't work for me and I was letting too many voices in my head in terms of what I should or shouldn't write. So instead I'm working on the video courses. AMS Ads for Authors and Excel for Self-Publishers are both done and published. I wasn't expecting huge sales from either one, so combined they've done nicely by that metric. And now they're there and people can find them as they want to. (Discount links on my blog if anyone is interested.)
The short stories on Google experiment failed. Putting my romance novels in KU did well enough that I let those renew for another term, but I'm pulling the romance short stories back to wide. Setting a title free in those series and just letting them tick along gives me a handful of sales of the collections each month wide and at no cost.
I saw a surprising amount of paperback sales this quarter. Almost $2000 worth just last month. And even taking away the top two titles which were the bulk of that, I still had about 50 paperback sales across a wide range of titles. About four times what I had for the same month last year. And since it's across pen names that aren't related, it seems to be a general trend more than one title bringing the others up.
My top title in terms of overall sales and profits and advertising ease is now a non-fiction title. As of last month it has outearned my romance. And that's okay with me. In certain respects writing non-fiction is easier to do and easier to advertise and keep selling. I still plan to start a new fantasy series and write another romance novel this year, but it's likely I'll be writing two non-fiction titles before then and publishing at least four more video courses before the end of the year.
I'm also seriously considering writing an MG fantasy, but that I'd want to go the trade publishing route for.
Too many ideas, too little time. But that's what makes it interesting.
As usual I've deviated from my plans for the year already. I started work on the new fantasy series, but then realized that writing to market really just doesn't work for me and I was letting too many voices in my head in terms of what I should or shouldn't write. So instead I'm working on the video courses. AMS Ads for Authors and Excel for Self-Publishers are both done and published. I wasn't expecting huge sales from either one, so combined they've done nicely by that metric. And now they're there and people can find them as they want to. (Discount links on my blog if anyone is interested.)
The short stories on Google experiment failed. Putting my romance novels in KU did well enough that I let those renew for another term, but I'm pulling the romance short stories back to wide. Setting a title free in those series and just letting them tick along gives me a handful of sales of the collections each month wide and at no cost.
I saw a surprising amount of paperback sales this quarter. Almost $2000 worth just last month. And even taking away the top two titles which were the bulk of that, I still had about 50 paperback sales across a wide range of titles. About four times what I had for the same month last year. And since it's across pen names that aren't related, it seems to be a general trend more than one title bringing the others up.
My top title in terms of overall sales and profits and advertising ease is now a non-fiction title. As of last month it has outearned my romance. And that's okay with me. In certain respects writing non-fiction is easier to do and easier to advertise and keep selling. I still plan to start a new fantasy series and write another romance novel this year, but it's likely I'll be writing two non-fiction titles before then and publishing at least four more video courses before the end of the year.
I'm also seriously considering writing an MG fantasy, but that I'd want to go the trade publishing route for.
Too many ideas, too little time. But that's what makes it interesting.