Another quick Goodreads giveaway!

Goodreads Book Giveaway

In the Shadow of Angels by Donnie J. Burgess

In the Shadow of Angels

by Donnie J. Burgess

Giveaway ends May 02, 2015.

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Curse modern technology!

I got my first (and possibly only) royalty check payout from sales of the novel today. I curse modern technology that I didn’t actually get a check that I could frame. It’s much harder to frame a direct deposit. But, that’s $3.36 I didn’t have before! Of course this was never about the money, if it was, it would be positively depressing. Since I like being depressed, here’s some napkin math on the numbers:

Mostly to make this number bigger, I’m going to theoretically pay myself minimum wage for time spent working on the novel. I would estimate that I worked an absolute minimum of 200 hours on the book -including writing, re-writing, editing, and research. So at minimum wage, that would be $1610 (if I worked at a McDonald’s for $15 an hour, that would be a cool 3k. goddam Obama). So:

$1610 Labor
$350.00 Cover Design
$350.00 semiProfessional editing
$250.00 Purchased copies of book
$100.00 Shipping supplies
$171.86 Postage (so far)
$255.00 Advertising (so far)
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$3086.00 Total

– 3.36 Royalties
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$3082.64 Total

– $20.00 One person sent for postage, but I haven’t yet (and probably won’t) cash it
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$3062.64 Total

Do it for the love of the game, kids!

Even discounting the 1610 in ‘labor’, there is still a fairly significant chunk of out-of-pocket for this project (about $1400, but I know I am missing expenses in my list). I knew there would be going in, so it doesn’t come as a surprise. The fact that the book is now in the hands of about fifty people, and the kindle version has been downloaded by over 300, is more reward than money would be (although it would be nice if they weren’t mutually exclusive). Now if I could just get some of those who have read it to review it on Amazon and Goodreads in the Kindle version and/or paperback, it would really be a shot to the old ego.

Kindle giveaway is over

The Kindle eBook giveaway is over now. About 200 people downloaded free copies. I kind of expected that number to be higher, as I financed a small social media ad campaign for the giveaway. Oh well.

If you missed out on the giveaway and really want the a digital copy, let me know on the contact page (make sure and include your registered Amazon email) and I’ll see if I can gift you a copy. I need this book in as many hands as I can get it into until I get some reviews.

If you are one that found your way to the site after reading the book, please consider taking a moment to review it on goodreads and the official Amazon page. It would be greatly appreciated.