Monthly Recap: August 2026

Ok! A bit more to chat about here.

Southern Fried Gaming was my most profitable event ever. I sold 1800 bucks, and spent very little to be there. So that will always help the bottom line. I swear, if I could do one of those a month, guaranteed, I'd be getting somewhere haha!

I ran my Facebook ad all month, and it went well. I spent 445.12 on it, and in turn made 1171.02 in Amazon sales/KENP. But I also sold a lot of Audiobooks. Assuming the royalties are around the same as last months (I have to track it  a month in arears) then it should be pretty close to 1500 total. So spending a bit less than one dollar to make three. I'm happy with that I reckon!

I also did a good bit on the critique front this month, which was the bulk of my (Other) Income. Coupled with lower expenses than last month, I ended up with a bit over 3k net for the month.

I'll take it!

Income - Book Sales:

(Amazon, Website, Ingram, In Person, Audiobooks, Consignment)

Total: $3,300.32

Income (Other):

(Patreon, Appearances, Affiliate, Pod Shirts, Freelance)

Total: $494.43

Expenses:

• Hotel

• Parking

• Meg Tooth

• Booth items

• Clipboard

• Facebook Ads

Total: $762.11

Monthly total made:

• Income: $$3,794.75 ($1,811.92 last month)

• Expenses: $762.11 ($2025.24 last month)

• Net Income: $3,032.64

Yearly Gross Total Made:

• $17,224.37

Yearly Net Total Made:

• $5,824.79

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Business as usual around these parts. 

Seriously, nothing of note to report. 

Anyway, here are the numbers:

Social Media Growth:

• Facebook Page Follows: 1131 (+19) 

• Instagram: 941 (+21)

• Facebook Fan Group: 410 (+2)

• Youtube: 154 subscribers (+2)

• Email List: 661 subscribers (+11)

• Discord Server: 78(-2)

• Threads: 292 (+2)

• Bluesky: 213 (+3)

• Patrons: 28 paid/54 free (+2/+2)

• r/Talesbybob: 25 (+0)

• Total: 3905 (+58)

Podcasts:

• Podcast Downloads (Monthly): 36 (-59)

• Podcast Downloads (Since April 2022): 7005

Here's what I am thinking I will do:

• I will finish my editing pass on Jubal County 7.

• I will tweak my Facebook ad.

• I will finish CON edits.

• Dragon Con.

Here is what I planned to get done this month (copy/pasted from last months recap), with its status:

• I will finish my editing pass on Black Water Reqiuem.  (Yep!)

• I will start increasing my spend on my Facebook ad.  (Yep!)

• I will finish writing my scripts.  (Nope!)

I got a lot done:

• Did Southern Fried Gaming Expo

• Wrote my SFGE recap blog post

• Made a cover for a fellow author

• Worked on some maps

• Made my Dragon Con promo image

• Made some Challenge Images

• Made a new tshirt design

• Sent Black Water Requiem off to the editor

• Did another round of edits on Capitol of Nightmares for Falstaff.

• Did a number of paid critiques.

• Did Dragon Con prep.

• Updated my website.

• Ordered some banner items.

• Opened the bank account for my LLC.

• Paid taxes.

Alright, alright, alright!

So there are three things of note for this month. First was that I finally did another in person event after two months off. I was feeling antsy, let me tell ya. As an added bonus it was a fantastic event (Southern Fried Gaming Expo).

The other two things are that I spent the month editing like a madman. Seriously, 566 pages in 52 hours. Why? To keep to my schedule.

See I had set aside August to do my edits on Black Water Requiem, so I could get it sent off to my editor Cleo by the 31st. Everything was going swell, so much so that I was thinking I could get ahead of schedule.

Then the next round of edits came from Falstaff on Capitol of Nightmares. This meant that to keep on schedule, I had to go wide open and spend at least two hours a day editing. But you know what?

I got it done.

Still on schedule, so BWR should be coming in December, and Marsh 7 in January. 

Quick summary:

• Word Count: 0

• Hours Writing: 52

• Hours Working: 10

• Pages Edited: 566