Christopher B. Wright's Blog, page 56
April 3, 2012
Finance Porn
One of the things I have to do each year when I prepare my taxes is calculate my income earned and expenses generated for publishing this site and all the content on it. It isn't a particularly complicated excercise: my revenue is easy to track (Project Wonderful for ad revenue, PayPal for individual donations) and my expenses are even easier (hosting fees.)
That will likely change next year, though -- now that I've jumped into the self-publishing world I'll need to track more expenses, and...
Slashing prices for science (SCIENCE!): The Update
At the beginning of last month I announced I was lowering the cost of the Pay Me, Bug! eBook to $0.99. I would keep the eBook at 99 cents for the entire month, then tell you how it worked out.
Well, I lowered the price for March. I reset the price to $3.50 on April 2 (though I see Amazon is still selling it at a discount for the moment). And now I'm here to tell you how it worked out for me.
The result? I can't say that it made any difference whatsoever. March had significantly fewer sales...
March 30, 2012
March 29, 2012
The Points Between - Chapter 17
Matthew followed Catie as she skipped and danced her way around the trees. Occasionally she would stop, crouch, and peer intently at the ground… then, just as quickly, she would straighten, laugh, and run off.
"Where are we going?" Matthew asked.
"Fishing," Catie shouted happily, but would give no further information.
"Your mom told me to make sure you didn't get lost," Matthew said.
"Not lost." Catie skipped to the right, dashed behind a tree, laughed, then peered around the trunk back at him...
March 26, 2012
The Privacy Myth?
It is not often that I can say, without hesitation, "I agree with an article posted on InfoWorld," but this article by Paul Venezia is absolutely worth a read.
I wish I had something pithy to add, but I don't.
March 25, 2012
March 23, 2012
March 22, 2012
I Don't Want To Be A (Self-Publishing) Hero
The Internet is probably not the best place for a journey of self-discovery, but it can happen from time to time. Today on my lunch break I was amusing myself by Googling "self publishing" to see what came up. One of the results was a Huffington post article entitled The Heroes of Self Publishing which listed some of the self-publishers through history who managed to find success -- not just Amanda Hocking, but other notables like Thomas Paine, Benjamin Franklin, and Beatrix Potter.
March 20, 2012
Guest Blog on 1889.ca
I was invited to contribute a guest blog to 1889.ca, an independent publisher specializing in "the best strange fiction conceivable by the human brain."
My article discusses the audience gap between webcomics and webfiction.
