Monthly Recap: May 2023

Alrighty! May (my birthday month!) is in the books, so lets take a little gander and see how things turned out.

On the social media front, I have been (poorly) taking part in a promo campaign with a number of far more with it and together authors (to be fair, depression has rocked me pretty hard the past month or so). So that is what I attribute the large, for me, jumps in facebook page and group follows. My discord didn't grow, which makes me a little sad, as it's by far my favorite way to interact with folks. I need to do better about pushing it (if you want to check it out... click HERE). I am also going to start including clickable links in the stats section, so if you are curious to see exactly what is going on there, you can click directly to be taken to see the relevant social media/store.

On the money front, this was a good month for sure. While I love the over 400 from in person sales, what makes me happiest is even though it wasn't a launch month, or even a month with the tail end of a launch happening in it, I still broke 100 in online sales. Sadly I did lose a patron on patreon, but I am trying out the new 'seven day trial' feature they have there now, and one person is giving it a go. So perhaps they will stick around and fill that spot! I am excited to see to what degree it helps me. My itch sales picked up thanks to me restarting my 5 dollar game bundle. And drivethrurpg and redbubble came through in surprisingly large numbers. I mean 8/9 bucks isn't much, but for them its huge haha.

Tomorrow I head off for ConCarolinas, where I hope I will see some of you fine folks. I'm going to need to move a lot of books to hope to even come close to breaking even, but either way, this is going to be an excellent opportunity to get outside my core 'region' and meet some new fans. Overall I am happy with my direction, while simultaneously being unhappy with a number of areas at the moment (podcasting and indie game design in particular). So I am hoping that when I get back I will be able to devote some time to overhauling those two avenues.

I may also start tracking my words written for each month on here. We will see if I remember to write down my starting word count in the morning I guess haha!

Social media Growth:

• TBB Facebook Follows: 758 (+50)

• TBB Insta: 557 (+12)

• TBB Fan Group: 225 (+28)

• YouTube: 94 subscribers (+1)

• Email list: 260 subscribers (+15)

• Discord Server: 37 (+0)

Income:

• 0.00 - Appearance Fee

• 25.65 - Amazon Merch.

• 9.15 - Redbubble.

• 20.00 - TeePublic.

• 16.00 - Itchio.

• 5.53 - Drivethrurpg.

• 9.29 - Patreon (patrons: 4)

• 112.89 - Book sales/KENP

• 430.00 - In person book sales

• 3.28 - Amazon Affiliate Income

Expenses:

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

Monthly total made:

• 602.99 (695.93 last month)

• Decrease of: 92.94