My Indie Author Business Report for March 2025

I’ve taken to summarizing my indie author business each month, so here’s March. This month, unlike many others, I did no new advertising (I have a couple small things that are ongoing). My books benefited from the afterglow from a BookBub featured de...

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Apr 01, 2025
Book ratings – what my data show

I posted the following graphs earlier but realized I hadn’t collected them here. I compared the number of ratings and reviews my nine books have received to the number of total downloads those books have received. Because most of my books are availab...

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Mar 26, 2025
My Indie Author Business Report – February 2025

February was a pretty good month for me. A great month in terms of exposure and downloads, and pretty good in terms of income. Revenue and a BookBub deal I was chosen for a BookBub Featured Deal in early February, and those always give me a big spike...

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Mar 02, 2025
Movie review: The Gorge

The Gorge on Apple TV was OK, maybe a little better than OK, but not great. Let’s give it a B-, graded on a curve for movies about sinister crevasses. The Good: — Miles Teller and Anya Taylor-Joy are good, better than this plot deserves. Their growin...

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Feb 17, 2025
My indie author business – Jan 2025

I’ve been doing monthly business posts, so here’s my first of 2025. Revenue Here’s my revenue from Amazon: I had nine audiobook sales through ACX, which will be about another $25, and I sold two books in person at an author event at my local library...

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Feb 01, 2025