I sell pretty consistently, month-to-month. I have three novels that account for about 95% of all my sales (divided between ebook purchases, Kindle Unlimited Pages read, and physical books), and they will swap which is most popular at any given point. Usually Caitlyn Morcos, Interplanetary Marshal Service is top billing, but occasionally the Queen of the A.I.s or Starconvey EH-76 will pop in for a few days or a week.
I realized today that I “only” have to write about 10 more novels like those three and I could do this writing thing full-time. Here’s the catch… my advertising budget outstrips my sales by a factor of 8. So somehow I have to maintain sales, but not increase advertising at the same time.
Which I think might require witchcraft? Possibly sorcery. But some fell-magic of some variety, because I’m pretty sure that’s not the way it works IRL, as they say.
Still. Maybe I can shift the ad budget around a bit, and as I publish more books the sales of my new books won’t negatively impact the sale of my old books? The dream is that each work encourages people to check out previous works, but I’m really not sure how realistic that is.
Anyway, just some idle marketing thoughts as I continue to strive towards being a full-time writer. I think I can do it…
Hope everyone out there is staying safe and healthy!