Sales Report: January 2016
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jeriendhalSummary:Trying to get back into the habit of monthly reporting for the start of the year.
Sales were definitely down in 2015 compared to the previous year. Total before tax profit from KDP, ACX, and Smashwords was $280.51, compared to about $600 the year before. Blame for that is squarely on me, since I didn’t publish anything new to support sales of my back catalog. Also the sales of CotRV audiobook have been pretty disappointing, coming to about eleven units since October of 2014 after subtracting the complimentary copies given out to my Kickastarter supporters.
Comparatively speaking sales picked up towards the middle of January, fueled I think by one of my unpublished FYS stories being chosen as a Daily Deviation on DeviantArt. Still down compared to the same time the year before, but an improvement compared to previous months.
Things to Do: Still working on Shadow ofHistory Doubt and The Red Vixen at Sea. The former is much closer to completion, and I’m hoping to have it out in the next couple of months. I’ve also restarted Prisoners of History, a non-salacious follow-up to Prisoners of War, tying it more firmly in the RVA universe.
Also in progress are various shorts set in the FYS. At the urging of Ryk Spoor, AKA![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
seawasp, I’m trying to put together a pair of short story collections, one for stories set during the Groupmind’s rebellion and takeover of the Earth, the second during the era of the Ring. Ryk seems to think the latter period would be a unique setting for science fiction, given the Groupmind’s lack of malicious intent compared to universes like Jack Williamson’s The Humanoids.
Sales Report: KDP/Pages Read
Captive of the Red Vixen: 3/1 (1/0 DE)
For Your Safety: 4/0
I Fought the Claw & the Claw Won: 3/0 (1 UK, 1 DE)
Mimsey's Tale: 1/0
Prisoners of War: 1/0 (1 UK)
Shadow of Her Sins: 3/170 (1 UK, 1 DE)
Shadow of the Red Vixen: 3/0 (1 UK, 1 DE)
Total Sales: 18/171
Sales were definitely down in 2015 compared to the previous year. Total before tax profit from KDP, ACX, and Smashwords was $280.51, compared to about $600 the year before. Blame for that is squarely on me, since I didn’t publish anything new to support sales of my back catalog. Also the sales of CotRV audiobook have been pretty disappointing, coming to about eleven units since October of 2014 after subtracting the complimentary copies given out to my Kickastarter supporters.
Comparatively speaking sales picked up towards the middle of January, fueled I think by one of my unpublished FYS stories being chosen as a Daily Deviation on DeviantArt. Still down compared to the same time the year before, but an improvement compared to previous months.
Things to Do: Still working on Shadow of
Also in progress are various shorts set in the FYS. At the urging of Ryk Spoor, AKA
seawasp, I’m trying to put together a pair of short story collections, one for stories set during the Groupmind’s rebellion and takeover of the Earth, the second during the era of the Ring. Ryk seems to think the latter period would be a unique setting for science fiction, given the Groupmind’s lack of malicious intent compared to universes like Jack Williamson’s The Humanoids.Sales Report: KDP/Pages Read
Captive of the Red Vixen: 3/1 (1/0 DE)
For Your Safety: 4/0
I Fought the Claw & the Claw Won: 3/0 (1 UK, 1 DE)
Mimsey's Tale: 1/0
Prisoners of War: 1/0 (1 UK)
Shadow of Her Sins: 3/170 (1 UK, 1 DE)
Shadow of the Red Vixen: 3/0 (1 UK, 1 DE)
Total Sales: 18/171
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Date: 2016-02-01 04:08 pm (UTC)1) The Groupmind has EMOTIONS. They aren't just protecting humanity because someone TOLD them to, they're doing it because they WANT to.
2) The Groupmind clearly understands that there have to be some LIMITS on their coddling, while the Humanoids are as inflexible as a modern-day assembly robot.
That combination makes the Groupmind and its agents *sympathetic* in a way that -- as far as I can recall -- no "machines take over for our good" scenario ever has allowed. You can be caught up in, and empathize with, BOTH sides of the conflict. This becomes more and more clear later on, when the Groupmind's got control and realizes that they/it STILL can't quite grasp parts of the issue, despite its vast resources.