February 2018 Writing and Self-publishing in Review

February 2018 Writing and Self-publishing in Review

In the February 2018 Writing and Self-publishing in review report, there is not much writing to report! This month, with the release of Over Raging Tides about a month away, I focused on release prep and some marketing:

Over Raging Tides:

• Early review copies sent to blog tour hosts
• Received edits from editor
• Made changes based on editor feedback
• Book sent to formatter
• Worked on interviews and guest posts for blog tour
• Reached out to Netgalley co-op to inquire about availability

My other books:

I’ve also made it a goal to get Threats of Sky and Sea to 100 Amazon reviews by the year’s end! So I contacted Xpresso Book Tours to set up a review query to reach out to her network of potential reviewers. And reached out also to the Netgalley co-op to inquire about their availability as well.

One, Two, Three by Elodie Nowodazkij:

After many difficulties getting the audio approved, I reached out to a company to master the files and this narration project went on sale!

Profitability:

I was in the red this month… but only slightly. I think this is likely due to the fact that I haven’t published in a while and the fact that I am more than guilty of not putting in enough leg work on the marketing side. I’m not at a point in my career where I can forget to hustle. I don’t think that point ever really comes!

I’m thinking about starting to do detailed break-downs of my self-publishing costs and profits each month. I figure it may help myself and other indie authors figure out how this all works!