How much is your fiction worth?

Finally, I work through how much your long fiction is worth. I’m using the most of the same bases of guesstimation as two weeks ago (traditionally published) and last week (short indie fiction). I want my indie books to pay for my time within five years. Why five years? I don’t know. I heard a local […]

Note: Forgive me, I have checked and rechecked my math, but I made so many errors the first time through that I can’t be sure I’ve caught them all. Sheesh. All right.  This is another tense topic for me, because I suspect I’ve been doing something that makes me happy in the short term but

When you write a story, how much should you sell it for?  Whatever the market will bear, right?  It’s a capitalistic society, so we can make a ton of money!  Huzzah! Well, it turns out that a lot of writers (including me) will sell a story for whatever the market will give us, not what