sholio | Miscellaneous writing ponderings

My goal with Rogue Myths is to make more on the re-release than I did on the initial release, which made $75, and I'm already at $60, so that's going well!

This release is a very different thing than the first release. On the first go-around, I had no mailing list, and I didn't promote it at all. I was planning to hit it with some promo when I had the second book out, and then I never actually got there, so the book languished in obscurity and sank. That's one of the main reasons I decided to re-release it rather than simply tacking the new books onto a book from two years ago - well, that and I got to do another revision pass, and retitle it to something I liked better.

This time around, I set up the mailing list at the end of February and have been actively growing it with BookFunnel promos; it's up to about 900 people by this point (though a lot of them are inactive and it'll probably drop to about half that when I cull out everyone who hasn't opened an email). Now that the book is out and book 2 is up for pre-order, I'm running a little bit of Facebook promo. I'm also going to spend July "training" some Amazon ads (Amazon advertising is so weird; you have to teach the algorithms to serve your ads before they become useful) so I can kick up the spending on those when book 2 is out.

And ... it's working? I mean, I don't expect wild success with this book by any means, but I'm hoping to gently boost my new-old pen name until, by the time that I have several books out this winter, I'll be making a decent amount of money off it. Fingers crossed.

Anyway, most of the short fiction on the mailing list for the next few months will be Gatekeeper-related; I've got a bunch of it.

Fandom stuff:

I turned in my

wingficex assignment (still needs some edits, but basically done). This leaves me with:

• Eat Drink and Make Merry (due July 19)
• Just Married (due July 26)
• Daredevil-Defenders Exchange (due Aug. 30)

And I still need to sign up for