Competing, and More on Marketing via PayHip

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In today’s Journal

* Quotes of the Day
* Competing with the 2024 Write Stuff Storybundle
* More on Marketing via PayHip
* Of Interest
* The Numbers

Quotes of the Day

“When people ask me if I went to film school, I tell them, ‘No, I went to films.'” Quentin Tarantino

Hmm. So like reading and then writing instead of going to writing school. I like it.

“[T]echnology’s essence is a way of seeing, grasping, and comprehending What Is and What Matters.” Matt Perryman (see Of Interest)

Competing with the 2024 Write Stuff Storybundle

DWS and KKR just announced the 2024 Write Stuff Storybundle. To get all the books in the bundle, the minimum is $25.00.

The link to read about that is in Of Interest. Go. Read. Read the titles and descriptions. Look for substance.

Then go read about Writing Better Fiction. Same test. Look for substance.

From which will you learn more?

And you can get Writing Better Fiction in ebook for only $9 from StoneThread or $10 from Amazon et al. Or the paper edition (only from me directly) for $25.

You do the math.

More on Marketing via PayHip

I tested one more thing quickly yesterday before I decided I wlll have to open a PayHip store—On Their Website—as opposed to simply imbedding PayHip sell buttons on StoneThread Publishing.

I can’t simply imbed PayHip buy buttons on STP because WordPress allows uploads of only PDF files. No epub or mobi.

So PayHip it is.

On STP, I’ll have to go through and link each book to its buy page on PayHip, but the actual digital files will be hosted on PayHip.

With any luck, the PayHip site will carry my custom URL so the customer won’t notice a significant difference. But for me, that’s a secondary concern.

PayHip also has “no storage or bandwidth limits. We only have a 5GB per file limit.”

(If I’m only allowed to upload one file per book to PayHip, I’ll upload the epub file. That’s the most-downloaded eformat.)

This is a good place to insert a reminder:

If you’re just starting to build your inventory, NOW is the time to think about all this and get it set up.

One commenter on Dean’s post said he would retire from his day job in 10 years, so he was waiting until then to do all of this. Another said she doesn’t have a lot of inventory yet, so she’s waiting too.

DO  IT  NOW. It will save you the headaches I’m going through right now of having to modify everything—one page at a time—for 126 pages (126 individual pieces of IP). That doesn’t include the 230+ short stories.

And if I have to upload three files for each publication, that’s also 378 file uploads. Again, not including 690 uploads for the short stories.

See what I’m saying?

It will be a lot easier and less labor-intensive to set it up NOW if you’re just starting. Then you’ll only have to set up one page and upload three files each time you finish a book or collection or short story.

Don’t be me. Be smarter than that.

Of Interest

The Write Stuff Storybundle Launched

Elon’s brain chip implant is rolling out and the consequences will blow your mind A very interesting post. What will your grandchildren’s world be?

Fringe Theory Claims the Sun May Be Conscious Great fodder for story ideas.

The Numbers

The Journal……………………………… 570

Writing of TJ Blackwell: The Origin Story

Day 1…… 6139 words. To date…… 6139
Day 2…… 1781 words. To date…… 7920
Day 3…… 2692 words. To date…… 10612
Day 4…… 3383 words. To date…… 13995
Day 5…… 2575 words. To date…… 16570
Day 6…… 1563 words. To date…… 18133
Day 7…… 2817 words. To date…… 20950
Day 8…… 4342 words. To date…… 25292

Fiction for March…………………….…. 58058
Fiction for 2024…………………………. 222650
Fiction since October 1………………… 525706
Nonfiction for March…………………… 27270
Nonfiction for 2024……………………… 126460
2024 consumable words……………… 349110

2024 Novels to Date……………………… 5
2024 Novellas to Date…………………… 0
2024 Short Stories to Date……………… 1
Novels (since Oct 19, 2014)…………… 87
Novellas (since Nov 1, 2015)…………… 9
Short stories (since Apr 15, 2014)…… 239
Short story collections………………… 31

Disclaimer: I am a prolific professional fiction writer. On this blog I teach Writing Into the Dark and adherence to Heinlein’s Rules. Unreasoning fear and the myths of writing will slow your progress as a writer or stop you cold. I will never teach the myths on this blog.

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2 thoughts on “Competing, and More on Marketing via PayHip”

  1. BTW, history of cinema is full of people without any film school background. A lot of them just started in theater. Alfred Hitchcock was just a HS graduate, he started his career in cinema as electrician on a film studio. Guy Ritchie dropped even high school and started from music video production. Christopher Nolan was graduated as major in English literature.
    It was fun rule in USSR – screenwriting faculty of Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography (the main film school) did not accept students who is younger then 30 and had no already developed profession.
    But I think the most significant thing is that there aren’t any great author who had learned his craft in Maxim Gorky Literature Institute. There’re just some authors who already did great but joined it to have official paper for tax police.

    “I was accepted into the Literary Institute without a matriculation certificate and almost simultaneously into the Writers’ Union, in both cases considering my book to be sufficient grounds. But I knew her worth. And I wanted to write differently.”

    — Yevgeny Yevtushenko. He dropped it on second year.

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