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Thanks Lebs! I'll keep throwing stuff at the wall until something sticks lol.
I've recently been into Manga in a big way, and it turns out quite a lot of the fantasy stuff actually is close in style to my own, so not a big leap haha.
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oh man, I hope this takes off
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Well, thank you! So do I! 
I actually hit my highest revenue ever last month, mainly down to this, which was mighty pleasing. (Only about USD100 mind lol, not going to buy that Lambo just yet!)
Book 5 is about 18% done. I'm struggling a bit with it, as my timeline was thrown a bit in book 4, and I only have a vague general idea for this part. I have what I want in book 6/7 raring to go in my head though!
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Aye. It helps that it's really just one long story, not like, eight of them. I'm about a third of my way through the next volume already.
My initial target is one book a month for a year.
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I've a very loose idea of the longer term story, but there's no set book count planned at this time. I've a number of arcs planned as the MC gets older, and will work towards the final boss fight as I go.
I'm about 83% through book 8, so on target for this month. 
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Aye, one book a month is pretty hard going in the long run. Not doing too badly though. I am halfway through the next one, which is slower still but had Xmas and other stuff interrupting me.
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updates on how its doing and what the process has been like? you are still making them, so I am hoping it is going well.
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Hoy hoy Empy! Glad to see you're still alive and kicking.
And yes, with some advertising on Facebook, of all places, I'm actually earning some money on this one! This month sold 90 ebooks, and had 280K page reads on Kindle Unlimited, and this was the worst month so far this year.
I'm about 50k words into book 21 just now. Hoping to get it our in a few weeks.
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That's a long series of books there C'ren! Well done. Good name for them as well. I take it you have a dedicated cover artist as well.
Oh, and just curious, about how many pages is each and what's the general price? Also, where, globally, are most of your sales coming from?
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Oh, and just curious, about how many pages is each and what's the general price? Also, where, globally, are most of your sales coming from? |
Hoy hoy old Thundey! Good to see you around!
Yes, it's a long series all right, already longer than I thought it would be in total, and I've a good two major arcs to do yet before the climactic confrontation. Then again, it's not so hard to write, because it's one long book really.
I try and make each book just over 60k words, although the latest one is 70k 'cos I had to find a good place to stop, and then, when I thought I was done, I realised I had missed half a journey out, which had to be covered, so had to add another 5k or words into the gap.
99.9% of my sales come from Amazon, and most of those are Kindle Unlimited reads. Then again, that's because it's only really available on there. Because they're on KU, the Amazon rules say I can't sell the ebooks anywhere else. I did have it available as a paperback on Draft2Digital, but hardly sold any, and since they introduced a yearly fee I removed them from there. I have just made the first one available as a paperback on Amazon though, but not sold any at this time.
The first ebook (in USD) is .99cents, and the others are all $2.99
90% of sales and reads are from the US, even though I don't target them specifically. Since the end of last year I've been boosting posts on Fbook (which overflows to Insta) and they (currently, fingers crossed) seem to be doing the job. I'm earning more than I'm spending at least. I've also started boosting on Twitter (X), which seems to get quite a few clicks, but less reads. So not quite as effective.
I did try Amazon ads before, but never made any ROI. I may try again next month though, now my series is more established. I'm going to experiment with ads on ChatGPT as well, in a small fashion.
I'm also putting them up as audio books on Elevenlabs, (it's also on the Amazon AI audio, but I think Elevenlabs has better voice). You can listen to the first book for free there at: https://elevenreader.io/audiobooks/reincarnated-in-a-fantasy-world-with-murderous-intent-1-audiobook/fwPH6Jx3och4wMkz3oXs
Elevenlabs is also AI, and I know there's a lot of hate for AI usage, but to get a narrator to read it would cost literally thousands, and remember, there are 23 books in the series now! I am making some money on them, but not that much!
Phew, that was a longer answer than I expected.
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I've never used 11 labs directly but quite a bit INdirectly through their associations with Heygen. Anyhow, thanks for the answers. I'm actually a very well trained FB advertiser who has rare capabilities for setting up ads in the meta world even if they change UI like underwear. Threads is kinda an interesting option there as well.
Do you find that you're getting more opt-in responses from FB or Insta? I'm usually stunned by how well instagram does considering I personally find it a very flat and unwieldy platform as a whole but the smart phone lovers seem to like it. I don't imagine you've played too much with TikTok...
Since we've started these discussions, I've been seriously considering an interesting project or two to bring here. It's taking real discipline not to and keeping focus on work til bedtime mostly.
You're writing fervor is absolutely stunning. That's a great way to live one's best life! Especially when you're getting such incredible results from it. I've heard that authors who stick to smaller formats and larger collections can really kill it.
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Cheers Thundey!
And I tend to get a 66% to 33% click rate on FB to Insta using the same add, roughly.
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