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Welcome to Paul's Podcast Diary for Saturday 12th January, 2019.
This diary charts my self-publishing journey – the ups the downs, the successes and the failures.
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This Week's Talking Points
1) My Q1 writing goals:
2) My 2019 Marketing Goals:
3) Books read over Christmas/New Year:
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4) Bookbub stats from John Hindmarsh:
Hey Paul,
I’ve just wiped the perspiration from my forehead and put down the nerve tonic. Or was it gin and tonic?
The results of my BookBub promotion – as of this am –
Amazon – 1064
Kobo – 94
Apple – 137
Nook – 80
Total 1,375
Assume total costs just under $2k [small amount of related advertising], and the revenue to me is approaching $2.5k; I’m certainly out of the red.
Results included some good genre placements and reached about #300 in top paid. The really scary part – keep in mind the book is a technothriller, protagonist is genetically engineered, and there is not a starship in sight.
Would I do a BB at the end of December again? Probably not. Too nerve wracking! It was a high-risk promotion, but heh! On reflection I should have more books in the series, to generate sell through. I’ve got the cover for book #5, so I just need to do some more writing.
5) Author earnings from 2018:
$20,300.01 total >>> Wide
$181.16 Payhip
$12,253.25 A/zon
$1,468.85 C/Space
$3852.02 Apple Books
$1350.95 B&N
$814.08 Kobo
$247.61 PublishDrive
$132.09 Google Play
About £16k … The Guardian reported in 2018 that average author income is £12,500 so I’ve exceeded that off my own efforts 🙂
Authors Guild report MUCH lower than that!
The survey further found that the median income for specifically book-related income for published authors declined 21%, to $3,100, in 2017 from $3,900 in 2013 and just over 50% from 2009’s median book earnings of $6,250.
Note, though, I’m not taking it as income!
I made $76.60 in 2014, $2,242.66 in 2015, $2,612.05 in 2016, $10,621.90 in 2017 and now $20,300.01 in 2018 … the difference is BookBub!
7) Prolific Works post-promo blog promotion at http://blog.prolificworks.com/see-it-first-paul-j-teague-claire-ridgewood-and-susan-gillard/
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