As of today, I think I'm pretty much done with any further self-publishing efforts for the year. The puppy and I start our 32-hour cross-country drive next week and I can't imagine between the holiday and that that I'll have much time for anything else.
Here's a link to her photo (I can't seem to figure out how to insert the photo without it being too big. I really need an HTML refresher.)
http://mhleedotme.files.wordpress.com/2013/12/img_1088-copy.jpg
Finally managed to get my short story collection (A World Dark and Cold) up on B&N, iTunes, and Kobo in addition to Amazon. (Full links on the bibliography page of my blogs. The one in my signature is to Amazon US.)
I also bumped the price up to $4.99 because I wanted enough of a price difference from the individual short stories which are at $2.99. (The good thing about not being well-established--no one really cares what you do with your prices.)
Starting next week I have Kindle promos running on the individual stories, so we'll see if that drives any sales of the collection. (I'll report back at the beginning of the year. I have one free promo and, I think, four Countdown promos scheduled between the 23rd and the new year. One is for my non-fiction, though.)
So far this is my best month revenue-wise. I have my non-fiction books set at $4.99 at the moment and have had a few sales of those, which makes for a nice return. I mentioned them on a blog with lots of traffic that was asking authors for the names of their books for holiday gift ideas and I think that's what drove the sales.
I'd love to break $100 for the year. I'm at about $60 right now, so that would be a bit of stretch, especially with no advertising, but one can hope, right?
And, if I cave and tell my FB friends about my writing, I'm pretty sure I could hit that. Just not sure I'm ready for that step just yet especially with the work situation that's going to bury me next month. If things are going to take off, I'd like to be in a position to leverage that and I just don't think I will be.
So...there you have it. Wishing everyone else many sales over the silly season and into the new year.