Monday, 4 November 2013

Zombies part two

The third and final trilogy is going great guns and I'm happy with progress so far. I'm hoping that it will be out, after some re-writing and revision, sometime in December.
I did mention in an earlier post that I was reducing the price of the first book but unfortunately no one was willing to buy it and now a new thing has happened with the Kindle where the price can be reduced temporarily but the 70% royalty is given rather than the 35%. This means that rather than having just 25 pence in income per sale of my book I can now have 75 pence. Unfortunately for this to work, Kindle have insisted that I put my price up to where it was before.
Whilst writing books and stories gives me a great deal of pleasure I will be honest with you and will say that I want to make a living out of this and if a book doesn't sell then it would seem that I'd been writing merely for myself. I do want people to purchase my works for that will encourage me to write more and of course I can then afford to pay the bills which is something I'm struggling with at the moment.
The way I see it, if I have something like five thousand loyal readers (more would be nice) then I can see this being worthwhile :-)
It's not just zombies I've written about, I also have a short story collection up plus a children's book and once this third and final trilogy book is done I will be finishing this other book that I've started, that will probably take me up until March so at that point I will have six books out and I already have ideas for the one after that.
Please buy gentle readers, it will make me ever so happy this side of Christmas!

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