Murderous Thieving Hordes of Peasants is up and submitted to the jam! I'm not sure if it really counts as "minimalist" since the PDF clocks in at nearly 35 pages, but I had a ton of fun making it and I'd love some feedback!
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Wanted to try knocking out a quick speed painting of sorts before making dinner tonight. A more updated look of my oathbreaker paladin, Hannah. Hope to get to play them again soon...
It's officially spooky season! 🎃 👻
Who is running or playing in a scary game this month?
Art by Erol Otus.
Added nine more DRM-free bookshops! 💜
⭐ Southern Literary Magazine
⭐ Peachpit
⭐ Feisty Duck
⭐ Prismata Press
⭐ Lost Pages
⭐ Godless
⭐ Magica Riot
⭐ Dim Shores
⭐ A Couple of Drakes
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So, I am a self-published author, and I wanted to diversify away from the #Amazon ecosystem for some time. However, I am hitting a snag with the Print on Demand options.
My paperback books are sold in a 6"x9" format, which is a standard format for paperbacks. With Amazon KDP, I sell my books for a standard price of $17.99, and I get about 5$ in royalties for each paperback sold.
Now I've used online calculators to calculate printing prices for a 384 page book on assorted Print on Demand platforms (this is the length of my current manuscript).
With Amazon KDP, I get the usual $5.19 in revenues.
With OneBookShelf (a platform that is primarily for #TTRPG, but which also sells fiction) I get US printing costs of $11.73, which should leave me revenues of about 4$. Still acceptable.
However, the biggest "alternative" Print on Demand platform is Draft2Digital, and there I would only get revenues of $1.11. Which is too low for my tastes.
So if I want to keep decent revenues for my print books, my options are:
- Increase the prices for my paperbacks. And I would have increase the price all the way to $24.49 if I want to get at least $4 in royalties.
- Skip Draft2Digital as a print publishing platform, and stick to Amazon KDP and OneBookShelf - although the latter only prints in the USA and the UK, which means customers in other countries will have to have to pay extra for shipping.
What are your thoughts what I should do? And what are some other Print on Demand platforms I should look into?
#amwriting #publishing
Ravenloft has some of the best scary art!
The House of Lament by Stephen Fabian.
