So on Friday the 29th there was this huge, huge, huge lightning storm over Rugby. The net effect on the life of yours truly was that a lightning strike took out some piece of telecoms kit (something mysteriously named a "connector" by the engineer who fixed it) and with it my broadband. I could still watch "Deal or No Deal" and phone the help line but no book editing.
So I have now finally published Sorcechanic, once more I have to check a proof copy but then it will be going up to buy. Within the next couple of weeks I want to set up my royalty bank account and I am settling on three charities between which to divide 90% of the profits (30% each). I have two, Scope I believe it's called and I'm going to also find a dyslexia charity. As for a third I'm really not sure. I'm going to have to think on it. Any suggestions comment below.
The shop will be coming in time for this year's National Novel Writing Month and maybe I'll make some sales there. It's quite ridiculous I think I'd have to sell about 5 copies of each book just to be in the zone where I could have even a pound to give to my nominated charities. This book business is costly. See the royalty I receive is something like about 18% of the manufacturing costs (you set your own). Which roughly equates to 1.25 per copy or something. I could boost the price to be making a 50% royalty or some nonsense but obviously this might be a disincentive to buyers.
Well now I have only new projects to worry about, except for a couple of minor changes that the beautiful Suzie suggested I might make to the ever delayed BB1.0
leasure's Daughter. Of course this year's NaNoWriMo will be all done by the close of Nov and I have promised once I finished that to crack on with a sequel to Figure of the Sorcechanic (which of course won't be published for another 10 days anyway so I don't know why I'm panicking).
Anyhow, that's where I'm at. Expect me to be somewhat more communicative in upcoming weeks as I've done the grindwork of publishing the old and now I can devote myself wholly to the production of the new.
So I have now finally published Sorcechanic, once more I have to check a proof copy but then it will be going up to buy. Within the next couple of weeks I want to set up my royalty bank account and I am settling on three charities between which to divide 90% of the profits (30% each). I have two, Scope I believe it's called and I'm going to also find a dyslexia charity. As for a third I'm really not sure. I'm going to have to think on it. Any suggestions comment below.
The shop will be coming in time for this year's National Novel Writing Month and maybe I'll make some sales there. It's quite ridiculous I think I'd have to sell about 5 copies of each book just to be in the zone where I could have even a pound to give to my nominated charities. This book business is costly. See the royalty I receive is something like about 18% of the manufacturing costs (you set your own). Which roughly equates to 1.25 per copy or something. I could boost the price to be making a 50% royalty or some nonsense but obviously this might be a disincentive to buyers.
Well now I have only new projects to worry about, except for a couple of minor changes that the beautiful Suzie suggested I might make to the ever delayed BB1.0
leasure's Daughter. Of course this year's NaNoWriMo will be all done by the close of Nov and I have promised once I finished that to crack on with a sequel to Figure of the Sorcechanic (which of course won't be published for another 10 days anyway so I don't know why I'm panicking).
Anyhow, that's where I'm at. Expect me to be somewhat more communicative in upcoming weeks as I've done the grindwork of publishing the old and now I can devote myself wholly to the production of the new.
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silveronthetree:
Mate, I miss ya 
hermes:
Been a while since you've updated eh? *shrugs* Well you have to come down for xmas now I got you a prezzie... 