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Congrats! That's happy news. Good reminder that things may look grim, yet the numbers can keep adding up.
How many stories are those sales and earnings spread across, and how long since you first published them? I'd appreciate a recap. I think you've done extraordinarily well.
Thank you! That's 32 short stories published in 4 series, with each series then being bundled into an anthology, for a total of 36 titles. First publication was June 2013. Total expenses were about $700 to date.
I'm still trying to interpret the sales and earnings data. I have a considerable number of completed novels in the trunk at the moment. From a business perspective, this experiment has turned a decent profit, so it's a success. But maybe that's because of the weekly short story format, and full-length novels might not sell so well.
There have been some negative reviews, although that may be partly due to the format - I can't seem to write a satisfying ending to a story so short. Or maybe I'm just not a good writer and I should leave all those novels in the trunk.
I'm really having a lot of difficulty reconciling these enthusiastic sales with the dozens and dozens of form rejections I received for my novel. I think the agents were probably right.
I can't seem to write a satisfying ending to a story so short. Or maybe I'm just not a good writer and I should leave all those novels in the trunk.
I'm really having a lot of difficulty reconciling these enthusiastic sales with the dozens and dozens of form rejections I received for my novel. I think the agents were probably right.
7. Author can write passable paragraphs, and has a sufficiently functional plot that readers would notice if you shuffled the chapters into a different order. However, the story and the manner of its telling are alike hackneyed, dull, and pointless.