As always, I continue to celebrate the little victories this pandemic has presented: opportunity to do way more writing, way more baking, more time with my partner and cats… more time, in general.
More stress, of course, but that’s okay! Things are still going well.
Just a quick footnote, for those who want a brief peek behind the curtain: in the week and a half since my latest novel came out, I have sold 11 copies (thank you everyone who bought one!) and it has been read approximately 11 times through Kindle Unlimited or Kindle Lending (free ways to download and read books that grant me a royalty per page read… thank you everyone who downloaded Caitlyn Morcos that way!). This is pretty good for me, actually… usually it takes me about twice that time to hit these numbers, which means I am, so far, about twice as successful as I was with my last two book releases (assuming the numbers continue for the rest of the month, of course). But that’s still nice!
Now, as for where I want/need to be… we’re not there yet by a long shot (I need to sell about 1,000 copies of a book for it to break-even with the editing and cover art costs, so about 50x more successful than I am currently, assuming the book continues to sell about as well for another month), but still, positive growth is always nice!