Sales Update: End of the Month Summary
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jeriendhalSummary: Some interesting numbers this time around. Over at Amazon CotRV sticks firmly to its ten copies a month average, which frankly is creeping me out a little at this point, though I'm not going to argue with it. Meanwhile Unexpected Diversions gets an increasingly rare sale, along with one or two sales each on Teal's stories, which seems to be their average (though perhaps I need to make it more explicit that all three stories are available in a cheaper anthology edition). Good Landing roars back to life after Amazon sets the price back to zero, matching Smashword's non-price, and I'm hoping to similar numbers from Demon Eyes once its new free price migrate over.
On the Smashwords side things, the situation is heating up. Sales on the main site are anemic still, but several sales through Barnes & Noble and the Apple store have more than made up for the slack, including a last hurrah for Prisoners of War. Numbers here are a little harder to analyze on a month-to-month basis, since the different online stores send their reports to Smashwords on different schedules, but they're encouraging.
In the Future: I'm thirteen pages in on Shadow of the Red Vixen, the cover for which is in Meg's queue to be created. Once it's completed, I'm expected its sales to match the first book. Also, due to an unexpected bit of good fortune, I may be able to get that new cover for Triumvirate so I can catch the attention of the Furry market better.
I'm debating on whether to offer up Prisoners of War on Amazon, to make up for its disappearance on Smashwords. The first consideration is a better cover for it. The current Photoshop piece of crap is unacceptable for Amazon standards. Naziha was intending to make a new one for me gratis but got distracted by other projects, which I can't blame her for.
More importantly it would be a change of fare compared to my other works on Amazon. I originally wrote it as straight up pr0n, and by the time it was finished it was more like Plot With Porn, working as a proper story, but some definite explicit bits. Right now my Amazon stories work in the PG-13 range, and I'm not entirely certain I want to mess with that.
The Far Future: After Shadow is completed, I'll need to get back to work on Warbird and once that's done see if I can plot out Triumvirate: Traitor's Homecoming. Also I need to configure How the Dragonfly Was Made into both Kindle and Smashwords formats, so it'll be ready to submit once Nez completes the cover for that (probably around the same time she does the comic version).
Amazon
CotRV 10
Good Landing 44*
Teal's Bargain 1
Teal's War 2
Teal's Choice 2
Triumvirate 0
Unexpected Diversions 1
Smashwords
CotRV 1
Prisoners of War 2
Teal's Bargain 1
Teal's War 1
Teal's Choice 1
The Dragon's Companion 2
Unexpected Diversions 2
On the Smashwords side things, the situation is heating up. Sales on the main site are anemic still, but several sales through Barnes & Noble and the Apple store have more than made up for the slack, including a last hurrah for Prisoners of War. Numbers here are a little harder to analyze on a month-to-month basis, since the different online stores send their reports to Smashwords on different schedules, but they're encouraging.
In the Future: I'm thirteen pages in on Shadow of the Red Vixen, the cover for which is in Meg's queue to be created. Once it's completed, I'm expected its sales to match the first book. Also, due to an unexpected bit of good fortune, I may be able to get that new cover for Triumvirate so I can catch the attention of the Furry market better.
I'm debating on whether to offer up Prisoners of War on Amazon, to make up for its disappearance on Smashwords. The first consideration is a better cover for it. The current Photoshop piece of crap is unacceptable for Amazon standards. Naziha was intending to make a new one for me gratis but got distracted by other projects, which I can't blame her for.
More importantly it would be a change of fare compared to my other works on Amazon. I originally wrote it as straight up pr0n, and by the time it was finished it was more like Plot With Porn, working as a proper story, but some definite explicit bits. Right now my Amazon stories work in the PG-13 range, and I'm not entirely certain I want to mess with that.
The Far Future: After Shadow is completed, I'll need to get back to work on Warbird and once that's done see if I can plot out Triumvirate: Traitor's Homecoming. Also I need to configure How the Dragonfly Was Made into both Kindle and Smashwords formats, so it'll be ready to submit once Nez completes the cover for that (probably around the same time she does the comic version).
Amazon
CotRV 10
Good Landing 44*
Teal's Bargain 1
Teal's War 2
Teal's Choice 2
Triumvirate 0
Unexpected Diversions 1
Smashwords
CotRV 1
Prisoners of War 2
Teal's Bargain 1
Teal's War 1
Teal's Choice 1
The Dragon's Companion 2
Unexpected Diversions 2
