Free. We like free. Even if in the end we don’t like whatever it was we got for free, we like the fact that it was free to begin with.
I’m offering some freebies. All you have to do is sign up for my mailing list — which will open the door for you to get more free stuff. And who doesn’t like that?
VIP Horror Club
Join my VIP Horror Readers Club and get “The Feeder” for free. A Pierce Mostyn monster tale. And if you join by Thursday, 22 July, you’ll also get “So Sweet”, a brand new werewolf story — exclusively for my mailing list.
VIP Readers Club
If you join my VIP Readers Club, you’ll get Vampire House and Other Early Cases of Justinia Wright, P.I. for free (instead of the list price of $3.99). And if you join by Thursday, 22 July, you’ll also get the darkly humorous story “Personal Problem Solver”.
1000 True Fans
What I’m looking for, in asking people to sign up for my mailing lists, is to find my 1,000 True Fans.
There’s a theory that’s grown out of the Indie Music scene that says all an artist needs are 1,000 true fans and he/she can make a living from the purchases those fans make.
The theory gives me a goal, something to shoot for. Something I can concretize into an attainable goal.
If I publish 4 books/year, and figure about $2.70 in royalties/book, that’s $10.80 gross income for those 4 books. One thousand true fans buying just those 4 books will give me $10,800. Not enough to live on certainly. But I’m retired and that would make a very nice supplement to my fixed income, which is what I’m looking for.
If I add in backlist sales, general public sales, and maybe swag sales, well, that’s just a lot of nice frosting on the cake.
So there’s my reasoning for the freebies, and my focus on my mailing list.
If you become one of my fans, you help me reach my dream of telling stories and making a few bucks doing so — and you get free trips to all manner of exotic locations without leaving your favorite chair. Plus you’ll get more freebies as my thank you. Sounds like a win-win to me.
So sign up now to get the bonus stories, which are exclusive to my mailing lists.
Comments are always welcome. And until next time, happy reading!
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