Monthly Recap: October 2024

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10/31/20242 min read

Alrighty, October 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!

Socials

Generally my socials kept chugging along! Nothing too wild going on here, just solid growth across all of it. Nothing major, which makes sense as I didn't try anything too wild. I am surprised at the slight uptick in podcast downloads, considering I haven't dropped an episode in a bit. Though that will be changing soon. I would like to break 1k on Facebook before the new year. But I won't do anything wild to try and make it happen...if it does, it does. I have a good number of collected email addresses from conventions that I need to input as well, which will grow my list a bit.

Social media Growth:

Sales

Another good month! I mean even with a decrease of a nudge over 700 dollars from last month it was still my third best month ever. Really though that's more of a testament to how good of an event Dragon Con was for me last month. So what went right?

First, I got a very big bump in online sales thanks to another author/game designer friend of mine sharing that she was reading my book on her TikTok. Amber is super rad, and if you like anything close to the DnD space, you should absolutely go check her out. Here is her linktree. I am estimating that between that video, and a comment I made on the self pub subreddit, I got an extra 150ish in online book sales that I would not have gotten otherwise.

Also, if you follow my blog you will have seen my recap posts for the Sumiton Book Festival, The Howler Art and Lit Fest, and Multiverse Con. while none of these three events were super lucrative, they were all fun and ended up combining to over 1400 in sales. Which brings me to just shy of 11k for the year! I BEAT LAST YEAR AND ITS ONLY THE END OF OCTOBER!

I know the rest of the year will be pretty slow, with only one con and one small art market left. So I don't expect to blow last year out the water. But the fact that I didn't take a step back, to me, that feels huge. So I right now I am estimating that I will probably end up around 12.5k for the year, so long as CONjuration is at least semi decent. Fingers crossed!

Income:

Fixed Expenses:

  • 62.06 - Website hosting, podcast hosting, vectorstock subscription

Monthly total made:

  • $1,703.97 (2,370.85 last month)

  • Decrease of: 705.32

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