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Money, Novels, Royalties
Results are in for Q2 sales and royalties for Baby Doe, the new novel, which you can purchase here. Paperback sales April 1-June 30 were...
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Bill
- Aug 23, 2021
- 3 min
Royalties, Costs, Money, & Sex: Sales of New Novel
I'm still digging my way through this. COSTS. They're all sorts of costs attributable to the making of a novel: author, publisher,...
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Bill
- Aug 13, 2021
- 2 min
Sales of New Novel: Baby Doe
Waiting waiting waiting for new information on costs and author royalties for Baby Doe. You'll know when I know. Equally hard is finding...
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Bill
- Jul 23, 2021
- 7 min
Money Report From Publishing a First Novel-Postponed
I know I promised recently a Q2 update on publication finances after publishing Baby Doe, the new novel. Unfortunately, royalty...
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Bill
- Jul 20, 2021
- 1 min
How Bestseller Lists Actually Work -- And How To Get On Them
Not original, but this article from the Guardian is too good not to share, especially the part about the best-selling novel, "The Foot."...
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Bill
- Jul 11, 2021
- 2 min
The New Novels: Reviewing the Revision Steps and Waiting for Q2 Sales
A trip to California and back, slipping between virus variants, has slowed appearance of this blog. Now I'm daunted, not by having a...
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Bill
- Jun 2, 2021
- 2 min
"Profits" From Sale of New Novel
Sales results for paperback of Baby Doe for one month of first quarter of 2021 (publication date--March 1) are in. Royalties are a...
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Bill
- May 23, 2021
- 3 min
New Novel Marketing Plan
Critical events of the past little while. 1. Today my iPhone packed up and did nothing but wink its little bitten apple at me, despite my...
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Bill
- May 16, 2021
- 2 min
Revision: Killing Cockroaches
In a prior life when I lived in an old apartment in Boston, whenever I turned on the kitchen light, a host of not so wee beasties...
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Bill
- May 2, 2021
- 4 min
Selling the Old Novel and Writing the New Novel
These days I find myself alternating between working to complete a first draft of DiBene, the second book in the Eli Kurz MD, NICU...
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Bill
- Apr 14, 2021
- 3 min
Five Rules for Writing Novels--during a year of Covid
There have been over sixty blogs since the inception of this website about a year ago--most of them about writing (why, when, where, how,...
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Bill
- Apr 3, 2021
- 3 min
Making Sourdough Bread and Novel Writing--When To Do It.
There. I think I procrastinated on this blog so I could unscramble the title. It''s not how to make a novel or sourdough bread, it's...
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Bill
- Mar 29, 2021
- 2 min
Immortalizing the Contest Winner
Once upon a time, a new author checked his book site on Amazon two or three times a day. It's been almost a month since publication. Hard...
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Bill
- Mar 22, 2021
- 2 min
10 Ways Writing a Novel Is Like Making Sourdough Bread
Why would anyone read drivel with a title like this? All over the web there are 10 Ways to Lose Weight, 10 Ways to Have Great Sex, 10...
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Bill
- Mar 15, 2021
- 5 min
Kill All Your Darlings
First things first. The New Novel entitled Baby Doe, is now not only as a paperback available on Amazon, but also an Amazon Kindle ebook...
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Bill
- Mar 7, 2021
- 3 min
Pantser to Planner to Puzzles
Baby Doe, just published, (and here's the all important link for purchase) was written piece by piece. I talked a lot about it. Imposed...
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Bill
- Feb 28, 2021
- 2 min
NEW NOVEL PUBLISHED
Yowser! Baby Doe is published as a trade paperback on Amazon. Here's the all important link The ebook will be up on Amazon in a few...
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Bill
- Feb 23, 2021
- 1 min
Baby Doe: Gone Girl
Thanks Bill, .I should have Baby Doe to the printer by Wednesday. I'll send you an email once it's there. After that, it should be up on...
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Bill
- Feb 9, 2021
- 5 min
Character in Characters
It's been weeks and weeks since my last post on this website. When there's a dearth of communication among folks, it may represent a lot...
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Bill
- Jan 24, 2021
- 2 min
Why I'll Never Quit Facebook
If you been reading these posts, the New Novel, that you know as Baby Doe was to be published in December. I thought it was done last...
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