Short answer is, ebook sales are not as good as print, and most agents don’t sell to epubs. But I’d love to go into it more, (although I’m no expert) in the next couple of days. Tomorrow, hopefully, my book will be released, and I have a contest and stuff to post about for that plus I’m chatting all day at FAR…but Sunday or Monday?

After, of course, I finish the edits on this, a short, the project my CP and I are brainstorming now, and another erotic which is the planned sequel to my vamperotic on sub now…sigh.

I like the pen name idea. I tend to follow authors who have different names for different genres (Jayne Ann Krentz=Amanda Quick=Jayne Castle, Nora Roberts=J.D. Robb) but that’s mostly because they still write the genres I like! I wanted to get my Angry Mob Supplies when some of my faves stopped the genre I loved to jump on the ‘what’s hot’ bandwagon. I would probably read more of the huge crop of romantic suspense authors if they still wrote historicals, too.

But I’ve also wondered how ebooks earn compared to mass market ppb. What kind of sales does a good author get? The difference in the average royalty rate for ebooks (35-40%) and mass market ppb (something like 8-10% if you’re lucky) is quite glaring. Does that mean ebooks don’t sell well? I’m actually all for not having an advance–I’d always feel a little guilty if I didn’t earn it out, and woe betide the author who doesn’t and ever wants to be published again. I guess what I’m asking is what constitutes, in your words, decent monthly paychecks?

Probably really jumping the gun, but I am curious. Not about your numbers specifically, but just a general idea. Also, have you found that agents are at all interested in selling to epublishers? Are the earnings high enough to make it worth their while, especially with no advance?

Sorry to hijack you’re blog here, but it’s one of the few places I try to visit regularly, and I do trust your opinion. If I’m being a nuisance, just let me know.

Lol, JTC, you caught me! And: Also, “theatres”? You’ve already been out of country too long.

Actually, that’s a holdover from my teen years working for Wehrenburg (large movie theater/re chain in the midwest). They spelled it “Theatres”, so it stuck.

And thanks! You make me feel so good (not in a stroke-y way, tee hee.) What a lovely compliment.

So, that’s where you go in your spare time. ;~) Also, “theatres”? You’ve already been out of country too long.

I read the interview and it was great (and I’m not stroking you -besides, that’s Mister December’s job).

Seriously, I think you are a better writer than a lot of the crap I find on the shelves from other published authors and I think your style will appeal to a lot of people (I checked 3 books out of the library the other day and I couldn’t even get past the 3rd chapter in 2 of them). It’s just going to take the right editor at the right time and with the right marketing scheme. Just keep doing what you do. -JTC