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
Convention news, writing progress, and more

Welcome, new folks!Hi, there, and welcome! About fifty of you joined the list here from a mystery/thriller promotion event in which Got Trouble was featured. I hope you enjoyed that story of a blue-collar mom tangling with the law and finding her way...

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Feb 15, 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
My 2024 in the indie author business

I’ve taken to doing monthly reports of my financials as an indie author. I also started doing an annual report last year, which some people found interesting, so I thought I’d continue with that. If you’re curious, here’s last year’s report. The Book...

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Jan 28, 2025
Notes on the departing books – SPSFC #4

This year, I’m on the Peripheral Prospectors team as a judge for SPSFC. We’ve recently announced our six quarterfinalists, as you can see in this post with more information and previous posts available on the team page here. I’ve been a participant t...

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Jan 14, 2025
New books for 2025!

I hope you had a safe and fun end to 2024. In this edition of my newsletter, I have a brief report on how 2024 went for me as a writer, what I'm working on now, and what you're likely to see from me in 2025.My 2024 I had a pretty great 2024 with my w...

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Jan 01, 2025