My Indie Author Business Report for April 2025

So, I didn’t get around to running the ads I was hoping to this month, so it was another quiet month of sales, and one that would have been almost pure profit, except that I landed a BookBub Featured Deal for Daros which ran on April 30. This was a f...

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May 06, 2025
A free book and some new cover art!

Welcome, new folks!Hi, there. If you've joined the mailing list recently, I want to make sure you get your free Frosthelm book, Traitors Unseen. If you haven't gotten it, you can get it free here (the site will ask you to sign up for t...

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May 02, 2025
Editing the new mystery

Welcome, new folks!Hi, there. If you've joined the mailing list recently, I want to make sure you get your free Frosthelm book, Traitors Unseen. If you haven't gotten it, you can get it free here (the site will ask you to sign up for t...

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Apr 16, 2025
News from Frosthelm (and other places)

Welcome, new folks!Hi, there. If you've joined the mailing list recently, I want to make sure you get your free Frosthelm book, Traitors Unseen. If you haven't gotten it, you can get it free here (the site will ask you to sign up for t...

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Apr 02, 2025
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
Editing the new mystery!

The new book!I'm done with the first draft of the new novel! I'm excited to share it with you. Spoiler-free image of the last page below.I've been hard at work reading, revising, and editing for the past week since I got back from a family trip. I'm...

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Mar 16, 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
All about the upcoming mystery

Progress on the new mysteryI am on the second half of the second-to-last chapter of my latest mystery, which means I may well finish it tomorrow, or if not, then Monday. That's always a lot of fun. It's at about 106,000 words now, which is a tad long...

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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