I spent more on writing fiction than I earned. No surprise. I write for Torre. This was also a very busy year at MotiveQuest where I spent extra hours upgrading software to meet demand leaving me with very little time for writing or reading. Somehow I managed to finish Dee Count for iPad and Kandy Fangs story, both projects started in 2010.
All of my stories are available for free (on blog, download, or by asking,) and I consider paid ebooks as donations (and supporting retailers) in appreciation of fiction. Find where to download my ebooks for your favorite reader on my Books page.
2011 Sales
At the beginning of the year, I announced that I would donate my 2011 ebook proceeds (as of Dec 15th) to Knowledge is Power Program (KIPP.) For transparency, here are my 2011 sales numbers for my books as of December 15, 2011.
Shadow Memories
- Paid: 3, 1 each at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo
- Free: 28 at Smashwords Summer/Winter Sale
Raven Memory
- Paid: 2, 1 at Amazon and 1 at Sony Reader Store
Kandy Fangs
- Free at Smashwords: 198
- Free at Barnes & Noble: 161
- Free at Scribd: 3 (embedded reads + downloads)
For comparison, in 2010 I sold 7 Shadow Memories, and 4 Raven Memory ebooks plus 30 free downloads.
Donation to KIPP
On behalf of readers, I donated my proceeds from paid ebook sales (ignoring my writing expenses) plus 10 cents for every free ebook download listed above to KIPP. This works out to be $4.62 for paid ebook sales plus $39.00 in thanks for free ebook downloads for a result rounded up to $50. I matched for total of US $100 donated to KIPP.
Thanks for reading my stories.