Monthly Recap: August 2023

Alright! August is behind us! This is a few days late, due to me being at Dragon Con when this would normally have come out, but let's dive on in!

Money talk first! So this was a book launch month! Those are always exciting. I muffed the actual launch a bit, but I was well pleased with how the month turned out in spite of my misstep. And I have lots to report about Dragon Con, but most of that will be saved for later posts on here. I certainly had some in person sales during August, because of the con, but I am going to log all those dollars on next month's report. Teepublic was down again this month, which now makes me wonder if something has changed there algorithm-wise. We shall see. I stopped paying for Zoom finally. My year was coming up for renewal, so I opted out. Any podcasting I record remotely I will be using OBS and discord to record most likely. So that will be saving me some money on the expense side starting next month.

Super excitingly, my Patreon is up to 7 patrons! That's the highest it's been! Woohoo!

On the socials front I started Threads and Bluesky accounts, but until I see if I am going to actually use either of them, I won't be tracking those numbers. I don't really know anyone on Bluesky, but my Threads, thanks to Instagram interconnectivity, has a few followers and such. My email list shrunk, but that is because A. I pruned a few dead emails from it, and B. some folks some unsubscribed when they got that first email. Most folks who had signed up for that promo were more paranormal romance readers I suspect, and I ain't that guy. I am also starting to reach a point where I need to make a clearer dividing line between my personal and public socials. I am not fully sure where that line will be just yet, but it's coming down the pike at some point soon.

Social media Growth:

• TBB Facebook Follows: 809 (+23)

• TBB Insta: 570 (+7)

• TBB Fan Group: 241 (+6)

• YouTube: 95 subscribers (+2)

• Email list: 600 subscribers (-43)

• Discord Server: 37 (+0)

Income:

• 0.00 - Appearance Fee

• 28.94 - Amazon Merch.

• 0.00 - Redbubble.

• 2.50 - TeePublic.

• 10.00 - Itchio.

• 1.63- Drivethrurpg.

• 13.70 - Patreon (patrons: 7)

• 834.44 - Book sales/KENP

• 110.48 - In person book sales

• 8.37 - Amazon Affiliate Income

Expenses:

• 29.50 - Podcasting Fees (Hosting + Zoom for Interviews)

Monthly total made:

• 870.08 (307.62 last month)

• Increase of: 562.46