Makin' ze Money (Not really...)

Random photo for a random post

Hello. Happy Sunday. Don't worry, no crazy rantings on the whole Inkpop fiasco. I'm just dropping by to give a little update about the other publishing aspects of my life. 

As you may or may have not noticed, there is a little tab at the top of this blog marked 'Abstract Perfection Publishing'. That is my own little publishing house (haha) that I use to put out public domain ebooks on the Nook. I'm only doing it as an experiment and here are the results:

The Princess and the Goblin went live at the end of March and had one sale. Considering I was the buyer (dorky and pointless, I know), that doesn't count as an actual profit. 

During the month of April it was bought seven times, making for a whopping $2.80 in sales generated for yours truly. Considering I spent ten bucks on the cover images, it'll still be a while before I break even. As I've said before, making money wasn't really the goal, but knowing that there are now seven people out there who might actually be reading this wonderful book makes me happy. 

That is all! I told you it was random! :D

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Okay, so I lied about not doing an Inkpop update.

Ghosts of Fallen Leaves: 4 pick lists, 10 watches, 2 comments, overall rank: 914

Loch Raven: 36 picks, 12 watches, roughly 15 comments/messages, overall rank: 340(!)

The Princess Experiment

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I probably should have posted about this earlier, but it happened during my blogging dry spell, so...yeah. Whoops. 

Let me do a little set up here. While ABSTRACT PERFECTION is the name of my blog, it is also the name of my indie publishing company (of sorts). It's basically the handle I'm going to use on all of my self-published titles, as well as any services I provide for other indie authors, such as cover design. As a kid, I always joked ABSTRACT PERFECTION would be my band name, but since I have the musical abilities of a wombat, I decided to use it for something else. 

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As the first title to be put out by ABSTRACT PERFECTION, I chose a pubic domain title that I could format and release myself. Since I'd recently read a horrendous ebook of George MacDonald's The Princess and the Goblin, I decided to make a pretty version of that to put up for sale. I reformatted the text (mostly replacing the single quotes with the appropriate curly ones, as well as double quotes for speech) and designed the cover myself. Neither of these processes took a small amount of time. I will be honest that the cover for this isn't quite as snazzy as I would have wanted, but the selection of stock photos was rather slim for little princesses that weren't dressed like beauty pageant contestants or Disney characters. 

I do highly recommend the book, since it's a super cute story. The whole time I read it, I kept thinking of ways to do an updated YA version, which I've placed on the back burner for now. I've technically made one sale on this book so far (since my own sale doesn't count!), but making money wasn't the point, so yay for extra money!