As a bunch of you are probably aware (or maybe not? I’m a writer, and so I find stuff about the nuts and bolts of writing to be kinda important to my life since it is how I try to pay my bills n’ all), Amazon has recently changed their payment percentages for authors.
That’s bad. They were already paying basically nothing (I mean, not nothing, but considering the amount of work they put in per book versus the amount of money they make per book… you could make an argument that it’s criminal what they’re taking), so less of nothing isn’t that big of a hit to somebody like me who sells a few dozen books a month. If I was on the precipice of “making it,” if I was selling a few hundred books a month, it would be a Very Significant Thing, but as it is, it’s another sigh and another mile ahead that I will have to trudge to get to my destination.
It’s not ideal, is what I’m saying, but it’s not going to impact you, my readers, since I’m not changing my pricing yet. Yes, I will make a little less per book sold (about 10% less, although I think it works out even worse than that), but such is the cost of writing. The wages of potential happiness are paid now, in sweat and exhaustion and depression, to pay off eventually in… less of those things?
Like inverse seeds? I dunno, I’m too tired and sweaty to come up with good metaphors.
Anyway, just thought everyone should know. Work on the novel continues, I am now over 70% done the edits (by page number, so it’s actually better than that, since the major revisions were around the 40-60% point), and work will continue!
Hope everyone is staying safe and healthy!