Monthly Recap: May 2024

Alrighty, May is behind us, so it's time for my monthly recap post! As always, I'm gonna be diving into the numbers behind my sales and socials!

On the sales front it was a good month. I did two conventions, the Capital City Author Event and ConCarolinas. If you read my CCAE recap, you'll know that I actually lost money on that event. So reminder: I don't log one time expenses and losses on this list. This is a gross earnings sort of total report. You can see the list of expenses usually on the individual con reports and the like.

Anywho, I also launched my audiobook (though those sales won't show up for a few months I believe). As part of that launch I did a free book promo, and that led to a bit of an uptick in sales, reversing the last few months slide. Also, I am renaming 'appearances' to 'education.' While this will mostly still be appearance fees, this month I got a check for a hundred bucks for doing some critiques for a Writers Digest workshop. So I figure that would be the best spot to log money like that. Excitingly I also sold my first signed book through my website (I don't have a store for that, you just have to contact me). And I also had my first Con pre-order when a ConCarolinas attendee pre-ordered my ultimate bundle! It's a really great feeling to walk into the con knowing you already made a sale, I have to say. Also, I will note that technically most of the ConCarolinas sales occurred in June. But since the con started in May, I am logging that all in this report.

Lastly, let me note: these numbers are as accurate as I can make them in the moment. For example, I forgot to log the fixed expense of my podcast hosting last month. And I had been underreporting by around a dollar all my Patreon earnings each month since January. I fix these things as I find them on my master spreadsheet, but the old blog posts don't get updated. So understand there is probably on average as much as a 20 dollar range in some months

But yeah. Good month.

On the social media front, things are moving right along as per the norm. Really nothing much to report here. I am feeling slightly more motivated on the Discord front, so I am almost certainly not going to delete it lol. I have a few little things I need to do there, but hopefully I will make some moves to help grow it soon. Otherwise, I was happy to see 7 organic newsletter signups. I am still sitting on a bunch of in person signups, but maybe I will get those input today. I am also going to start tracking the total number of social media...numbers? I know that there are scads of folks who follow me multiple places, so there is a bunch of duplication. But one quick glance number I think might be useful.

Social media Growth:

• TBB Facebook Follows: 933 (+2)

• TBB Insta: 643 (+5)

• TBB Fan Group: 278 (+3)

• YouTube: 110 subscribers (+3)

• Email list: 684 subscribers (+7)

• Discord Server: 37 (+1)

• Total: 2685 (+21)

Income:

• 100.00 - Education

• 36.86 - Amazon Merch.

• 0.00 - Redbubble.

• 4.50 - TeePublic.

• 18.00 - Itchio.

• 6.50 - Drivethrurpg.

• 19.97 - Patreon (patrons: 11)

• 156.55 - Book sales/KENP

• 618.50 - In person book sales

• 3.06 - Amazon Affiliate Income

• 0.00 - Random

Fixed Expenses:

• 17.00 - Podcasting Fees (Hosting)

Monthly total made:

• 946.94 (1,302.41 last month)

• Decrease of: 355.47