2016 has closed for business! What were the final tallies? Key: Sales = How many actual bona fide sales I got across Amazon, Kobo, and Draft2Digital (which included Apple, Nook, others, but mainly Apple). Pages Read = Kindle Unlimited Pages Read. Depending on the length of the book and the month and Amazon’s whims, I… Continue reading 2016 Self-pub sales figures
Well, hello there! It’s been a little while… 2016 is almost over, so it feels timely to check-in. Since I last posted (at the beginning of August, oops), I’ve been pretty busy. I taught full-time at a rural school for two months. That was a good experience, but also exhausting. I was very relieved once… Continue reading End of Year Catch-up!
My writing is unfortunately taking a bit of a backseat at the moment – I’m back teaching full time. Mixed feelings about this, of course. The money is good (and much needed), and I do actually enjoy teaching, but… yeah. It’s just re-affirming what I already knew… teaching is definitely a back up plan for… Continue reading Back in the classroom…
How are we already half way through 2016?! Why am I always surprised at the passing of time?! I thought it might be timely to do a bit of a check-in on my goals for the year. By the end of the year I want to have cracked the $1000 a month threshold. So far,… Continue reading Mid-year check-in
Mid-month, so that means it’s time to find out exactly how much money I made on Amazon last month! Unfortunately it wasn’t a triple figure month, this month. I need another new release, me thinks. Amazon.com: $77.68 Amazon.com.au: $11.03 Amazon.co.uk: £4.07 Amazon.de: €5.89 Amazon.ca: $5.09 Createspace: $2.04 Total sales were 69 (mix of actual sales and… Continue reading May Numbers & Figures
We’re already a third of the way into June, how did that happen?! I’ve been getting back into the grove of writing the past week or so, after a month or more of barely writing anything and flittering around between different projects. I did get a lot of planning and notes down on a few… Continue reading Project update
I hit a small milestone yesterday. 1000 sales! It only took me 3 books and 3 and a bit years. Hah. Here’s hoping the next thousand doesn’t take quite so long…
Pretty safe to say that April was my best month in a long, long, long time. Official figures came out the other day. Across the board I made 49 sales and had 21,639 pages read. Combined, that equals about 116 sales/full reads 🙂 Happy with that! Triple figures! Woooo! The new book had a total… Continue reading April Numbers
The secret new book, under the secret new pen name has been out and about in the world for a week now! It’s done much better than I was expecting. I haven’t told anyone about this book, apart from The Lovely Boyfriend (who has not bought it), so all of these sales have been organic.… Continue reading First week (new pen name, new book)
So, my new book went fully live about 24 hours ago. So far, I’ve been really happy with it! This is the first book of a new pen name, that I have not promoted in the slightest and haven’t even told anyone about, so none of them are pity buys from friends/family! Nice feeling! Haha.… Continue reading First 24 hours live
