Writing for free

Hi there, struggling, starving authors,

I pay between 200 and 250 euros per book for betas and cover design, not to mention the countelss hours I pour into each book. Up until recently, however, I offered my brain children for free because my main goal was to reach like-minded people. "I will write for reviews", I thought naively. Since I'm not the type to promote books and prefer spending my time writing, I thought I'd let the non-price do the promoting, and to a certain extent it worked. The "sales" climbed steadily. However, the reviews did not.

A passionate reviewer myself, I fail to understand why such few people would set aside a measly three minutes of their time and share their opinion. However, since people are what they are and will not be changed, I thought I was going to be the one to make a change: I set the price to an outrageous 99 cents.

It's not that i'm sulking - OK, fine, a little - it's more the fact that I've come to the conclusion that my books have value. 99 cents does not even begin to reflect how much value they have to me but if I based my pricing on that kind of thinking, nobody would even click on it. OK, perhaps they would to see what kind of book is worth 1,000 euros. That's just a number, by the way; I don't think any author can express in a currency what their books mean to them.

At any rate I'm done catering to freeloaders. If people have to pay a little something, perhaps they are even more likely to leave a review. Hope dies last.
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Published on September 27, 2018 00:33
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