I Broke $1k! (In My Third Month of Self-Publishing eBooks)

January was my first month jumping into the world of self-publishing, and I made $115. February was $720, which just floored me. I'm so excited that my writing is actually starting to bring in some real money! March was a great month – looking like I'm going to hit $1200 or so – but, more importantly, I managed to achieve a lot of my other goals:

redesigning my website so it looks nicer (still nowhere near perfect, but I'm taking it one step at a time)
publishing at least 1 story every week
doing the free GIMP tutorials for fellow indie authors who want to learn to make their own eBook covers
joining Adam&Eve as an affiliate (referral link here for those interested in joining through me)
breaking the 30 title mark, woo!

I had some absolutely stellar days (for me, anyway) where I would sell 40-50 books in one day, and ended the month with an average of 26 books/day even with the fiasco of publishing sites censoring and filtering stories. I also decided to branch out and do cover art services with a super-cheap basic eBook cover option. I only got a few clients from that, but it's definitely something I like to do to give myself a break from other work.

Marketing and Promotion: This month I tweeted my new gay parody of The Hunger Games called The Hung Games and got some new subscribers for my newsletter, which I haven't been doing enough to promote. I did an author interview at Polly J Adams' blog. I've been watching the Novelrank trends for my books, and I'm going to focus my efforts on the kinds of stories that seem to do well (I have a couple of great ideas on the back burner!).

The one goal that I failed was one that I will be working on in the days to come: Consistency.

I wanted to write at least 1k words every day, and I didn't. This will be a priority in the month of April. I'm not making any sales goals – I prefer to set goals that are within my control – but it would be nice to keep the pace up at least. Repeating to myself in the mirror: the best advertising is writing more.