One book fell into last week. Concentrated on looking up courses and wattpad data. Progress on both. Hands-on farm project ate away Sunday, so schedule is already off. New book came up, so three in progress right now (one without cover.) The Great Writing Business Challenge – Week 29 Results Metrics Subscribers: Instafreebie/PW: 18/74 (Actual vs. Reported: 24%) 2 non-IF subscribes. StoryOrigins: 0 Overall Total: 3226 (maintained, regardless of continued slow on-boarding from IF. Main point slowing is that I've quit overboarding the 90 day no-openers.) Published Words Fiction: – free – Own Site: 0, Medium: 0, Wattpad: 0 – paid – Book Outlets: 0, Medium: 0 Published Words Non-Fiction: – free – Own Site: this blog, Else: 0 (Medium) – paid – Book Outlets: 0, Medium: … [Read more...]
The Great Writing Business Challenge – Week 19 Results
An intense week of going backward to move forward - revising an old anthology to start posting it to Wattpad. Outstanding improvement by linking all these books together by content. Proves the short story writing-publishing paradigm. The Great Writing Business Challenge – Week 19 Results Metrics Subscribers: Instafreebie/PW: 66/199 (Actual vs. Reported: 50%) StoryOrigins: 0 Overall Total: 3597 (Yet again came up some...) Published Words Fiction: – free – Own Site: 0, Medium: 0, Wattpad: 0 – paid – Book Outlets: 97111, Medium: 0 Published Words Non-Fiction: – free – Own Site: 1374, Else: 0 (Medium) – paid – Book Outlets: 0, Medium: 0 Books Books updated: Total: 14 more single books, plus 1 anthology (leaving approximately 66 fiction to go and uncounted non-fiction … [Read more...]
The Great Writing Business Challenge – Week 10 Results
Catching up on things. The four handwritten notes kicked my butt seriously this week. Those again forced a review of my branding, goals, and scope. Content Inc book again reared its head as completely invaluable for author-preneurs. Hope you like this new format - seems it's easier for Google excerpts and the RSS feed... The Great Writing Business Challenge – Week 10 Results Metrics Subscribers: Instafreebie/PW: 374 StoryOrigins: 1 Overall Total: 3843 Published Words Fiction: – free – Own Site: 0, Medium: 0, Wattpad: 0 – paid – Book Outlets: 0, Medium: 0 Published Words Non-Fiction: – free – Own Site: 7323, Else: 0 (Medum) – paid – Book Outlets: 0, Medium: 0 Books Books (pre-)published: None Books In Progress: 0 Book sales this week: Draft2Digital – 11, … [Read more...]
The Great Writing Business Challenge – Week 09 Results
Sorting out my brand. Simplifying the massive updates I have to do across all my books. And working up a uniform newsletter format to tell people what is going on and what they can receive for being part of this. Main point is getting a working model actually running. Email coach has been a great help by enforcing this evolution and streamlining... The Great Writing Business Challenge – Week 09 Results Metrics Subscribers: Instafreebie/PW: 331 StoryOrigins: 1 Overall Total: 3927 Published Words Fiction: – free – Own Site: 0, Medium: 0, Wattpad: 0 – paid – Book Outlets: 0, Medium: 0 Published Words Non-Fiction: – free – Own Site: 6117, Else: 2393 (Medum) – paid – Book Outlets: 0, Medium: 0 Books Books (pre-)published: None Books In Progress: 0 Book sales this … [Read more...]
The Great Writing Business Challenge – Week 07 Results
The Great Writing Business Challenge – Week 07 Results Three new non-fiction books published this week. Caught up in general. Letting IF/PW just go along. Lulu came in with a surprising sales of a $100 royalty off a single book (I sell like one a year of these.) Metrics Subscribers: Instafreebie/PW: 242 StoryOrigins: 3 Overall Total: 4053 Published Words Fiction: – free – Own Site: 5987, Medium: 0, Wattpad: 0 – paid – Book Outlets: 0, Medium: 0 Published Words Non-Fiction: – free – Own Site: 1917, Else: 811 (Medum) – paid – Book Outlets: 250938, Medium: 0 Books Books (pre-)published: The Writer's Journey of John Earl Stark 02 How I Survived My First Year of Fiction Writing This Fiction Business – (H. Bedford-Jones re-publish) Learning from the Pulp Masters … [Read more...]
The Great Content Business Challenge: Publishing Premises
The Great Content Business Challenge: Publishing Premises references: Creative Penn - Trends for Authors 2019 Self Publishing Advice.org - A Look Back at 2018 Self Publishing 2019 Book Industry Predictions: The Butterflies Will Flap Their Wings The Premises of This Year's Challenge Last year, I worked on an Fiction Writing Challenge - and it was a great success. I produced far more content than I imagined I would, or predicted I would. Because I concentrated on building the habits of writing "Damn Good Books." And along the way, I had to study and throw away craft texts that didn't help me achieve that. Initially, it was started with a book called "How to Stop Feeding the Beast". That was based on escaping Amazon's algorithms through very different approaches to volume … [Read more...]
