Transparency Project

I love to help other authors who are coming along on this crazy journey with me. So to that end I break down all the stats I can for folks, and post them on my blog. But I thought it would be helpful to have one central point where I can point people, so they can see the full knowledge base I am offering.

When I started out, I had no other authors that I knew well enough to ask questions about sales numbers, social media growth, etc. I'm a big believer in the concept of 'be the change you want to see' so I started sharing all that information, in hopes that it would motivate other authors to do the same. And even if they don't, at least this information is available to anyone who wants to know what those types of stats look like for a small time author like myself.

Every time I launch a book I record all the statistics. I also do posts about things like when I hit my break even point. You can see all those posts by clicking HERE.

Each month I break down how my numbers were. I track my social media growth (or shrinkage), as well as all the money that comes in, ranging from book sales to POD shirt sales. You can see all those posts by clicking HERE.

If you don't have time to look at monthly reports, then maybe a yearly breakdown is more your speed. You can see all those posts by clicking HERE.

I do a lot of conventions. I don't do recap posts on all of them, but for those that I do, I relay information like what panels I was on, how sales went, what my costs were, etc. You can see all those posts by clicking HERE.

Dragon Con is my biggest event each year, so it gets it's a page where I have all my past years blogs on it. You can see them all by clicking HERE.

I am a big believer in defining success for yourself. I like to track my own success markers, and love to celebrate when I hit one. You can see all those posts by clicking HERE.