Fair warning: I am sleep deprived and it is making me discouraged and grumpy.
It’s already the 6th of the month, which may say something about how I’m feeling about goals at the moment. But here we are. How did it go in April?
Write weekly episodes of the Kindle Vella dragon serial.Did this.Create two digital bonuses for my spiffy Patreon supporters.Did this.- Finish the audiobook of Shift Happens and load it to the retailers. Really, this time. Totally did NOT do this. I made some progress. Ugh. It’s the never-ending project. Why did I start this?
- Get the next Portal Storms book to at least 50k. (It’s currently at 15k, so this is not an unreasonable goal!) Didn’t do this. I added some words, but not anywhere close to that.
Foster some kittens!Did a lot of this.
The other thing I did last month was start running Facebook ads again. In one way, they did great — the cost per click was around $0.10, and I had a bunch of downloads of book one of the Penelope Standing Mysteries. And if I’d ended up with the same read-through I get when advertising elsewhere, it would have more than paid for itself. But… Facebook seems to have optimized the ad for people who are willing to download a free book but not necessarily keep reading. So… Ugh.
We can agree that last month was not a huge success on the author business front. On the other hand, I kept three kittens alive, including one, who was a little touch-and-go for a while. That will have to do for now.
May Goals
- Write weekly episodes of the Kindle Vella dragon serial.
- Create two digital bonuses for my spiffy Patreon supporters.
- Finish the audiobook of Shift Happens and load it to the retailers. Eventually, it will happen.
- Get the next Portal Storms book to at least 50k. (It’s currently at 25k.)
- Foster some kittens!
Obligatory Pet Picture
This is Witch Hazel, who is tiny but mighty!
