8/1/11 Monday

I have actually made money from sale of my book! I had my eBook Goth Chick's Guide to NYC & Beyond on sale for Kindle and various other sites around the web for more than 2 years. And finally I got an e-mail from Amazon payments telling me that I made money. I was so shocked. I had given up on actually selling my non-fiction stuff. But this gives me new hope and vigor for the coming weeks, months, etc. I have written and began so many great short stories. I am going to make sure that the rest of my writing energies are spent completing and editing all of my work so that I have enough stuff to put together. I can make money with my writing. A couple of my short shorts are finished, but Amazon has an option for a book cover, which I didn’t even think about for a short story. I only thought of images for the books. But this is a digital age and I have to think in terms of covers, art, illustrations for everything now. I am working on covers for the short stories.

I will be relying on clip art since I have neither the time, skill, or patience for illustration. But it will suffice. I know people like to see images, not just the generic place holder images, but an actual personalized image. So that’s something I’ll be working on over the next few days.

I hope that people offer me helpful advice and feedback. I feel rather apprehensive about the feedback as we all know, people on the internet can be very cruel. I just hope I can get some criticism that is constructive. I know I tend to miss things with my ADD brain.

I just joined Amazon’s Author Central. It’s for writers who have stuff for sale on Amazon. I only have digital stuff for now. I am mostly interested in digital stuff until my novel is finished and then I want that to be an actual book in print. But I don’t wish to have it be available in hardcover first the way most books are; I would rather have it available in trade paperback and then pocket size, or straight to pocket paperback. Hardcover books are so large, heavy, and awkward.