I’m still not sure how well this is going to sell. I’ve done pretty much everything I can short of actually buying advertising space in Previews, but I don’t know if I’ll be losing money, making money, or breaking even.
Hopefully, I’ll make enough to justify making another book. I’m already talking to Colacitti about it.
Check out some of his designs:
I said "Make 'em younger!" This is what Colacitti came up with.
A few more examples of younger characters
Some more clarified head-shots
I finally have all of my podcasts up and running. They’re all available on the download page or at iTunes. If I knew anything about the other internet services, they’d be available there too (Zune, etc.).
I actually had it done last week, but I could put it up until today. My awesome dial-up connection is a bit limiting at times.
I’ve just had the oddest conversation.
A (sort of) agent contacted me about Tiny Life. He said that he can talk to book stores that Diamond can’t touch. I thought that it would be a good opportunity to sell the book to a few other stores that wouldn’t normally see a book like Tiny Life. He gave me all the specs of his business and it seemed pretty reasonable, so I took him up on it (or, I guess, will take him up on it; I haven’t signed anything yet).
The thing that’s freaking me out is the numbers he’s talking about. He said he can probably sell about 30 books for me. That’s pretty good considering my Assistant to the Traveling Secretary can barely get a half-dozen sold. He also said that Diamond probably wouldn’t be able to push more than about 300 copies.
On the left are my expected orders. On the right will be my actual orders.
This puts me in a bit of a tough spot because Diamond is expecting something like 1500 copies (at least that is what was inferred).
At 300 copies, I’ll be making something like $600 on this project. I was hoping to make at least enough to break even with Colacitti.
Damn you (sort of) agent. Now I’m all nervous.
This iTunes thing is starting to get on my nerves. Hopefully, it’ll be worth it in the end.
I wasn't stealing it, but I should've used my own site.
See, if you’ve been reading this stuff at all, you’ll notice that I’ve uploaded several items to iTunes (five chapter previews without commentary and five chapter previews with commentary). Well, I guess they’re popular because they closed down the site I saved them on three times last month. The people who use that site for their needs are pissed.
Normally, I wouldn’t mind. I’d pay the $5 – or whatever – and keep it going. Normally, I’d just move them to another site, maybe change up the xml file that iTunes reads, and start again.
But I can’t. I live in the middle of nowhere (actually, I’d have to drive for about an hour to get to the middle of nowhere). I have dial-up and these files are huge. Plus, my hosting site won’t allow anything bigger than seven megs to be uploaded without using a ftp program.
On top of that, I forgot to mention this website on each of the podcasts. So now I’ve re-uploaded the commentaries with a little 20-second commercial for sliverltd.com on to this website. Hopefully no site will close down and people will no longer be mad at me.
Tiny Life Blog 