Bookshit January Edition

[renegadefolkhero]

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• I made $450 this month (I think... probably more than that, who cares)
• Eden paid me. I honestly wasn't sure if that would happen or not.
• Last year I made $34 in ebook sales on Kobo. This month, I made $27! Not sure what happened but awright.
• I've said before shorter works will like never pay out on Kobo+, but I just figured out one of my short novellas paid out twice last year so booyah.

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• I finished a 60k romance draft this month. I started this book back in 2024 and watching it finally come to life has been very rewarding. It's still missing Something so I'm gonna marinate it a while. For some reason, 60k ish is a common stopping point for me on a middle draft, and I usually come back and add 10 to 20k. I expect this one to be about 70k finalized.
• I decided to post a recent finished story on my Patreon. Some people post weekly chapters on subscription platforms as a way to motivate themselves. Personally, I can't do that. It stresses me out, and my back and forth discovery/writing style is not conducive to serial publishing. That being said, publishing there scratched an itch for me and I made uhhhh I think $70 in subscriptions?
• The urge to publish is rapidly fading now that I'm getting used to not doing that, and realizing how nice it feels to just write and not deal with hoohah. I set a tentative goal to push out two book babies sometime this year but who knows

Next book? I don't know! When I'm between drafts I tend to flit around here and there, feeling things out and seeing what I vibe with. I have 3 ghost WIPs I'd love to finish. There's one novella in particular I have returned to about four times. I really want to finish that book, but I also don't want to touch it more than five times, so I'll probably prance around it a bit longer.

Comments

[samuraiter]

Still: A complete draft!