Friday, April 6, 2012

Year-on-Year, March 2012

For the first two months of this year, my YoY looked pretty good, the numbers were higher than 2011, at least. I now have 13 published items: 1 novel, 6 novellas, 1 novelette, 1 omnibus, 4 short stories.

Here is my loverly chart:


As you may notice, my sales for March of this year were exactly the same for my sales in March of last year (2011). I was hoping for at least 1 more sale... it would be wonderful to have three months of growth... but I can settle for "same". For the year, I am still technically "up". I have high hopes for April, because I like to think with 13 titles I can beat a sales record of SIX! Starting in May is when I think I'll be really worried...

Another nice thing: my BBoS (Big Box of Shame, the brown box that Amazon puts across your sales chart when you have zero sales/the new month starts) is ALREADY gone for April! Yaysies :) A copy of "Shackled" moved, which I'll explain why that's interesting further on...

Also, 2 of the 3 months this year, I received royalty checks, which is of course, FANTASTIC ;)

Another thing of note (not pictured in this chart), 4 of my 9 sales (44%) were for my highest priced items at $3.99 and $4.99. In the end, sales are just a number until you can actually do something with the money you earn. I would have to sell 8.06 short stories to equal 1 copy of my $3.99 sold. 10.08 to match the $4.99. Ultimately, selling less was actually more for me (than if these had all be $0.99 shorts).

That really reinforces for me that I need to get one of these novels-in-progress finished! Not only for higher royalties, but because people really do seem to buy them at a better clip. It's a little sad, as I seem to be mastering short stories with every passing day :P

Speaking of which, a few days ago I finished up another short tentatively named, "Singularity". I'm considering turning it in for the Writer's of the Future contest, introduced to me by my good friend Kingswood but I haven't been able to grab him yet to question him about it. (Are you reading this? :P)

So I guess the only thing to do is get crackin' back at it!

4 comments:

  1. Good work, JE. As we all say, more titles! And thank you for letting us see the details. I just wish I ad some to share LOL.

    Keep going, good things will come.

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    1. ... wish I had some...
      obviously!

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    2. Don't worry, I just figured you went with the British accent to emphasize your point. Eh, Guv'na? Jolly good.

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  2. Nicely done, JE! I agree, get to work on those novels and get those up; even though I only have two out, they each bring in more money than any other title, by far. And I wasn't selling them consistently until the second one came out.

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