Less than six cents per copy

That’s not a great return on something you’ve spent weeks of your spare time on, is it? Unfortunately it’s reality for many authors these days.

Over the past month I’ve had the very great pleasure of writing a novella for one of Annie Seaton’s anthologies. In my case it was the beginning of a love affair because my novella spans only one day. However, it has led me on to the promise of a full novel and then a series for later next year. All good!

Annie first put these out as trios of stories, but has now combined them into a boxed set of six for Christmas. That’s more than 400 pages of good reading for 99 cents. This is absurd really, but readers are certainly onto a winner.

        

 

If you’re a writer you’ll know that Amazon pays a royalty of 35% on books priced at 99 cents, so that’s 35 cents in round figures. Split between the six of us that’s less than six cents each. And then we’ll pay tax.