You had a great year, Cheryl!
I bumbled through 2012. Published my first book mid-way, took it off sale for a couple of months while I figured out formatting. I consider I didn't really get started until September.
My biggest mistake was approaching this as a writer and not as a business. If I'd seen it as a business, I would have done things much differently, including starting off with a different book and getting things like formatting and book covers under control beforehand. My last mistake of 2012 was in keeping my formatting program open on two computers simultaneously, which meant one copy of my book was automatically saving over the other copy with an older version - and I did this with all the books and shorts I published in 2012 without realising why the stuff I kept losing my changes.
But, I consider it a success to have published two books and my shorts in my first few months. Sales and borrows were around 5k. I'm hoping to have three more books out by the end of 2013
I bumbled through 2012. Published my first book mid-way, took it off sale for a couple of months while I figured out formatting. I consider I didn't really get started until September.
My biggest mistake was approaching this as a writer and not as a business. If I'd seen it as a business, I would have done things much differently, including starting off with a different book and getting things like formatting and book covers under control beforehand. My last mistake of 2012 was in keeping my formatting program open on two computers simultaneously, which meant one copy of my book was automatically saving over the other copy with an older version - and I did this with all the books and shorts I published in 2012 without realising why the stuff I kept losing my changes.
But, I consider it a success to have published two books and my shorts in my first few months. Sales and borrows were around 5k. I'm hoping to have three more books out by the end of 2013