Giveaway ends May 02, 2015.
See the giveaway details
at Goodreads.
For a limited time, the price for the kindle version of In the Shadow of Angels has been reduced to 99¢ Get your copy before the promotion ends!
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.
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.
I’ve set up a giveaway on Goodreads. It lasts through the end of the month and there are five free copies of the book available. The information is through the link to the right on any of the pages here.
The Kindle free promotion lasted for one day and is now over. 64 people downloaded the book for free, hopefully one or two of them will read it through and like it enough to post a review to Amazon. I’m also hopeful that if they hate it they will simply delete it from their device without taking the time to write a scathing review (I’ve seen horror stories about reviews coming from these free promotions).
So, we’re back to $2.49 for the Kindle version. I will probably run another free promotion in a couple of weeks, but for now I am tired of talking about this book every waking moment…
But…
I should have copies of the book here early next week to start signing and sending out. Stay tuned for that!
In the Shadow of Angels has been added to the Kindle Online Lending Library. It will remain there until June. So if you have the service and want to check it out for free, now’s your chance. Here is the link.
In the Shadow of Angels is being offered for free on Kindle today. The free offer ends at 11:59pm (PST) 3/16/15, so take advantage of it now! The kindle page is right here.
There was a printing error on the first few books printed. That means that if you happen to be one of the three people that bought it before I happened to catch the error, and by some miracle I happen to get ridiculously famous (LOL) your first edition could be that much more valuable!
The print version of In the Shadow of Angels is available on Amazon well before they said it would be. It is currently not searchable by title, but you can find it by author name. You could also just click through this link right here.
