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Happy Wormhole day! Only this time, the blog is kind of going down the rabbit hole. I’m lifting the curtain and giving you a peek behind the curtain of my business.
You may have noticed that things are still changing here on my blog and really, all over my website.
1. I hit a goal I didn’t know I was trying for: 1,000 blog posts. (I was kind of stunned, and truly, have no desire to try for 2,000. Lol If I live that long, fine, but not going to work for it. Lol) So I dialed things back to 2x a week, which only cuts out one blog post a week, but wow, it has reduced my stress and opened up more time for writing actual books. So win-win (unless you were hoping I’d stop writing books).
2. A massive re-design of my site. I love it. It’s easy to update and it looks pretty and professional, which makes me happy. It also makes me more confident in sending people over to the site to visit and look around. (Many thanks to Author Cats for the awesome template, designed just for authors!)
3. I’m keeping my wormhole posts, because I love showcasing the hub’s awesome photos, but sometimes they’ll get displaced for “why I wrote” guest authors, because I love those, too.
4. But the latest change, you might not have noticed at all. It’s a quiet change, but important to me as an author. I’m now doing direct sales of my books here on this site. I have good reasons for adding the option.
Just to put it into perspective: A book that sells for 4.99, Amazon takes 1.50, plus potential delivery fees, delivering around $3.49. If they change their percentage to 50%, then I’ll split 2.50 with Amazon, except for the delivery fees, of course. A sale at 4.99 from this site will deliver me $4.74 profit on the book I wrote. And that 5% includes any delivery fees.
For years and years, other people made more off my books than I did (I typically made 30% or less before independent publishing opportunities opened for me). Amazon has a right to run their business the way they want, but so do I. And I plan to continue to try making more from my writing than other vendors.
I already have several website-only stories:
And I have two coupons running right now for my newsletter subscribers. It’s super easy to sign up for my newsletter AND you get two free books just for signing up, and I’m adding in 35% off coupons for Dead Spaces and/or The Key IF you buy directly from me. You can sign up for my newsletter by clicking the red bar that says “Pick your free book!” right there at the top of my website and entering your email OR you can click here.
If you don’t feel you can buy direct, don’t worry. We’ll still be friends. 🙂 But I hope you’ll understand why I need to make changes to protect my business. If you have any questions, please ask!
Perilously yours,
Pauline
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