I know that sounds like a lot, but 20,000 words of editing is actually a pretty quick process! I should be done today, major catastrophes notwithstanding. And I’m excited to have this draft finished, because then I can put it down for a few hours, and tomorrow do the final draft before it goes live!
Self-publishing my books is still not the preferred way to do it, but for now it’s the option I have available to me. And it still gets books into your (my amazing readers and supporters) hands, so I’m gonna call that a win. In order for each book to break-even, I have to sell about a thousand copies, and to make anything remotely like a profit I have to sell about two thousand copies. That’s about ten times more than I’ve sold of ALL my books, combined, at this point, but that’s okay! Because hopefully as people read my work and realize that I’m both a consistent writer and a quality one, they’ll pick up other books I write and so on, and so forth.
I’m still not doing much (read, any) marketing for my work because, as it stands it’s just shouting into the wind unless I have way more scratch to burn (which I don’t), but I figure when I have about 10 books under my belt I’ll be able to start really pushing some ads out, hopefully direct a few (hundred) people towards my work.
With that, I should get back to it! Those last 20k words aren’t going to edit themselves!
Hope everyone is staying safe and healthy!