I assure you that I am absolutely angling to get more titles out there. Good to know about Fictionwise taking the first $15–I didn’t know that! And yeah, I’ve been pretty happy to be lingering in the top ten in Fantasy for several days now!

Thanks, all around!

The amount is nearly identical to my own for that period, although I was selling eBooks only that quarter. I feel that the amount is less important the first time than the validation of actually seeing money for it. It ranks up there with your first acceptance letter and the date that your first title goes on sale. The money will matter later in the hope that the amount increases each quarter.

I believe that the approach to success in writing is to either: 1) Have a very successful title; or 2) have a number of moderately successful titles that combine into the equivalent of #1. Of course, the best outcome of all is to combine #1 and #2. :^)

I just had my 11th title go live this last Monday. There will be a long drought (well it seems long to me) of 12 weeks — a full quarter — before #12 and #13 go live a week apart in late November. Those two titles will also be my first print books in addition to eBook releases. Then starting in January my publisher is upping their weekly release from 3 titles every Monday to 6, and I’ll go through a period of having a new title come out every 3 weeks for several months.

I see articles weekly on how the eBook market is poised to explode with new eBook readers arriving (Sony will soon release yet another eBook reader, this time with wireless downloading, Barnes and Noble’s unit that everyone is so excited about from Plastic Logic is due early next year, as well as Apple’s rumored tablet computer as an eBook platform arriving sometime yet to be announced) soon. Once people have their new toys they’ll want to get content for them.

One disappointment to be aware of at Fictionwise is that they take the first $15 of your royalties as the setup fee. But with FB at #9 this morning on the overall Fantasy list you should expect that to easily be covered.

My suggestion to you about this is to get some more titles out there. If you publisher says that they can’t do too many print books at one time then inquire about ePublishing only initially and going to print later. Everything doesn’t have to be in print to be a valid sale these days.

And Great Luck!

–DB_Story