I’ve mentioned before that I have a weird fascination with metrics. Tracking the numbers of my writing career has been interesting in many ways I wouldn’t have predicted when I first started this journey back in 2016.
For example, I have sold more books in the last 4 week period than I have at any time before. There is still a blip of my first novel having more free copies given away than I have sold at any point (technically, only the first 20% of the novel, since I broke that one up into 5 parts in a kind of serialization… boy, was THAT ever a bad decision… one novel, five times the work! I won’t be repeating that mistake without justification at any point ever again). But I think the release of The Hunt for the Wind’s Howling Rage has seen more copies move than ever before, which is nice! If I can keep up this as a more-or-less consistent number, and then the next one releases with about the same numbers… that might be enough to push me into full-time writing.
It’ll be close. It might take a 3rd novel at-these-numbers, which, again, I don’t know if that’s reasonable. But gosh it would be nice.
Anyway! Yes. Numbers. Speaking of which, I have an essay I have to write (500 word essays!? Who does that!?) for Monday, and class notes I have to record for today, and another novel to finish a few chapters on (I’m sticking with numbered chapters titles this time, just to make my life a little easier, but then I’m doing that Dune thing of putting a little quote or news report at the start of every chapter, just to make my life even harder…). So I’m going to get on that!
Hope everyone out there is staying safe and healthy!