Real Talk for Writers

After playing around in the author portal last week for the Real Talk issue on royalty statements, I dug a little deeper to explore the impact of new releases on the sales of previous books. The findings were interesting, so I decided to share them with all of you.

Before I dive in, an important ca...

This week's issue of Real Talk for Writers came as a request from a few debut authors that I know. There is so rarely transparency when it comes to sales numbers (author Jason June being one of the rare exceptions -- the royalty posts on his newsletter inspired some of my formatting this week), whic...