Book Sales

$623.03 earned to date through Amazon (some of it not yet paid).

$376.37 total in 2015 including unpaid 

$296.27 paid in 2015 compared to $246.66 in all previous years.

153% (53%) growth over all previous years.

73 Books Published in two years.

Author Page: http://www.amazon.com/author/nathancoppedge

1 Yr. Above 400,000th Author! Yay!

The chart shows my supposed Amazon Rank over the past 1-Yr. period.

Slight improvements over the previous year (not shown).

ADVICE ON WRITING

Here is some advice on writing books and being creative:
1. Think about the title first. To an important extent, a title is what makes a book classic. Not only the title, but the accurate reflection of the title by the content. But if you can't think properly about the title, you probably don't have a good idea of the book. This is kind of my thesis of good writing.
2. Think about what it means to have content. Are you a poet? Then you need to get inspired. Are you a facts-person? Then you need to do some research. Are you a novelist? Then you need to know how to connect 'creativity' with a 'story'.
3. Think about concepts of meaning. What would be meaningful to write about? Or, of you're not a meaning-oriented person, what would be meaningless to write about?
4. If you're still stuck, try taking short little adventure-vacations. If you feel like writing a few notes, you can do that (notes eventually add up, although I don't recommend this as the primary method). The important thing is that you are clarifying your thinking.
5. Whenever you have a seed---the merest seed---of inspiration, then you can use this to develop a longer piece, such as a paragraph, or several pages. Try working with short chapters if you can't work for long. Or, if you're like me, you can write in an encyclopedia style, collecting the parts alphabetically. This may be easier than writing a novel. A second method is to write a book of quotations, and a third method is to use structure primarily, such as lists or graphics.
6. An alternative is being very inspired, and writing either a structure of a piece, or an entire piece, or chapter, in one sitting. This is something to work up to gradually. (I don't recommend drugs for getting inspired: just feel the cool air, the wind on your face, and focus on what you know or love).
7. This is one of the secrets of writing: Remember, you don't need to write very much to make a book in a year. In 6" X 9" format, you need to only write the equivalent of about a page every two or three days. If you don't have good content, though, or if there is no organization, then you're doomed.
That's my sagacious advice on writing. I hope it means something significant to you.

One week until one full year above 400,000th author rank!

Nathan Coppedge's Author Page may be found here: http://www.amazon.com/author/nathancoppedge

Estimating 210 books sold this year by the end...

That's about a 19% improvement on last year's sales.

So, good news!

Author page at: http://www.amazon.com/author/nathancoppedge

Predicting 42 - 70 Sales in the Rest of the Year

Since I currently have 136 sales for the year, I can predict that I'll sell a total of 178 to 206 books by the end of the year, only slightly ahead of last year. But it may be $26 - $104 ahead in real profits.

PROGRESS AS AN AUTHOR

5/6ths of the times I have ranked above 100,000th author occurred in the last year.

But my average rank has been about 200,000th - 400,000th author so far, on the upper end if I don't count before Sept 2013.

Currently, my rank has been above 400,000th author for over six months without exception during that time. And during that time I have been above 100,000th author for 10 separate days.

However, my dad says it's baloney, and he was #1 author one time. I don't know what to believe (I don't think my dad is lying, but maybe he meant in a single category, rather than overall) but I like the stats program anyway.

Author update

A sale every day in the past 12 days, thanks to 4 expanded distribution sales this month. It may really be a report on last month, but that's another story. I have to trust how it appears on paper.

I earned about $25 during that time, although the company hasn't paid it out yet.

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