How profitable is each novel volume of your series?
How profitable was your first novel as compared to your second and third and fourth etc? 



By Wendy C Allen

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Who is Tod Murphy? 

Do you know who this woman is?

She might be the woman who murdered my son. 

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Some thoughts:

  • Some genres are big and will sell lots of copies with no marketing. (Erotica for example.)
  • Some genres are small and will sell almost nothing, even with lots of marketing. (Short story anthologies for example.)
  • All genres if marketed wide, sell next to nothing, because only 10% of the population reads books.
  • All genres, if marketing is narrow focused on a target audience will sell a lot to that audience.
  • eBooks make up only 30% of total book sales in America, so if you book is ebook only and not also in print, that contributes to fewer sales then normal.
  • 70% of novels are read by women aged 50+ who do not own a computer, cellphone, or ereader and thus read paperback books only
  • books available as ebook only, can often increase their sales by as much as 90% by making a paperback edition available

Now, genre is an important part of marketing, because some genres have small markets.

Take the tiny niche genre of Unicorn Porn for example. There were at last count, only 7 authors world-wide of Unicorn Porn, and only 7,000 buyers, WORLD-WIDE. There are 8 billion people on the planet and fewer then 1% of them read the genre called Unicorn Porn. If you write Unicorn Porn, and you market wide to every one, you'll have no sales, because you are telling people who are not interested in you book, but if you market to your target audience, those 7,000 readers of the genre, then you'll be pretty guaranteed to get 7,000 sales, but no more. To market a genre like this, you need to find out where your readers hang out and market there. Tiny niche genres can be difficult to market for because you have to know where specifically to look for a very specific type of reader.

On the other hand if you write a popular genre like 50 Shades KnockOffs, which have 10million fans in America alone, marketing wide to everyone will get you millions of sales with very little effort at all.

So, I would ask if you are marketing your books and if so, are you marketing them in places where your genre's audience hang out?

Have you researched the type of person who reads your genre? (Young college women in upbeat cities? Retired moms in urban areas? Seniors in rural fishing villages, with limited access to internet?)

>>I have published 7 novels on kdp and have only made like 25 dollars. I barely even sell one novel a month.

Actually this is pretty common. There have been several studies of book sales (trade and self published) and the average income a book will ever see IN ITS LIFETIME is only $5,000.

Many studies also show that the average self published book sells on average 10 copies a year. That's fewer then 1 copy per month.

Amazon releases their IRS tax info every year, because they are a "public" company and are required to do so in order to sell stocks. In that tax record is a list of some 8 million KDP authors. More than 7 million of them are listed as "Having earned under $500 this year." These listed as being "not reportable incomes" due to the IRS requiring an author to earn $600 (six hundred) from their book per year before being required to file that book as income on their tax report.

THAT says a lot right there. According to Amazon's own records 7/8s of all KDP authors are making less than $500 a year off ALL their books combined.

>>Did you advertise your book? If so how?

I target a very specific small niche sex fetish, featuring older beta male characters, extreme CBT torture BDSM, urethral sounding, chastity cages, fetish piercings, evil serial killing super villain Wizards who get horny when they kill people then have sex with each other on the dead bodies, unicorn horns and wizard wands being used as dildos and sounding rods, and Seme/Twink rape fetish. I'm very "underground" not a mainstream genre, so I have a very small, but ravenously devoted following.

My own genre (Yaoi Monster Porn) has a specific audience: retired seniors 60 to 80 years old, mostly women, but also men; tend to be high income but are too busy travelling on bus tours in 50+Clubs to have time for internet. Like to read smut on the bus and compare dick sizes of their favour male characters on their bus trips. Are willing to pay the tour bus driver extra to side track off the route to their favourite Yaoi author's house. I know because 7 bus loads of screaming fan-grannies (70 per bus) arrived unannounced in my driveway 3 summers ago to tell me this.

They have invited me to join them on their cross country sight seeing bus trips and I have gone on these trips with them and got and up close and personal insight into just EXACTLY what it is my most dedicated fans love about the series and the characters.

One of my long time most fanatical fans was a WWII Colonel from Austria, living in Kennebunkport, Maine, who if you follow me on FaceBook, you'll remember for his constant posts on my FB wall, who sadly died last year, 14 days short of his 100th birthday. It was through him that I got an eye opening insight WHY my books sell at such high rates in Germany (where a whopping 2/3s of my book sales are.) The series contains a strong anti-white power theme, in several volumes featuring Nazis and Ku Klux Klan as villains, with the main characters being Gypsies. Germany ranks one of the top ANTI-Nazi countries on the planet, because of the Nazi stronghold there in the 1930s/1940s. Though I long knew the bulk of my sales go to Germany, I had not known why until this former Third Reich Nazi Commander explained the present day situation in Germany, resulting in ANY book with an anti-Nazi theme getting high sales to German readers. He was also one of my first senior citizen fans to come forward to meet me in person, back in the late 1980s. And if you've followed me online long enough, you also know I'm now married to his radical High Priest excessively white power son, who has served in a large part as the inspiration for the current version of main character Quaraun.

In Biddeford, Maine you'll find a group of women in their 80s, who, know my car, and upon seeing me drive up, are quick to rush over and gush their love for my characters... in very vivid detail. I once stood in WalMart parking lot for 2 hours, listening, while 4 elderly women, argued over which character was better hung. In the end they concluded it was Roderic... alarmingly, who has the best written description of his testicles in the entire series.

Ooooh, believe me, you've never heard potty mouth smut, until you've listened to 4 old ladies argue which Elf has better balls.

0.o

Why do senior women (and men) love my characters?

Age has something to do with it.

I write what sometimes refered to as "Barra Yaoi", meaning, the characters are older men, not the young teen boys usually seen in the genre.

Main character Quaraun, an Elf who at 450 years old is the equivalent of a 45 year old man. His primary lover, Unicorn, is a 3,000 Faerie, is the equivilatent of an 80 year old man.

The characters are not young and so they attract older readers.

The series also targets some very specific fetishes, namely CBT (Cock and Ball Torture) and features characters with double dicks, barbed penises, and horribly mutilating scars on their genitals.

Roderic, the character the fan-grannies when uber-lust over, has no hands, a fetish that not many people get into but those that do, it's hard to find books that feature it.

Also, with the exception of Seme Unicorn, all the men in the series are VERY submissive twinks, very docile, very timid, very cowardly, scared, and kind of momma's boys, in need of... well... momma. Something older "cougar" women like in their men.

The men in this series are NOT your typical main stream, big burly men either. Quaraun is one of the tallest men in the series and he is only 5'6". Unicorn is 5'1" and Roderic is 5'3". 

So, my books definitely DO NOT target the mainstream young adult reader, and very much target older women, looking for older, but still younger than them, men in need of a momma figure to coddle them. My characters provide that.

So, this is what I mean, by knowing who you your readers are and who you need to target in marketing.

The Yaoi genre on it's own is HUGE and spans a vast set of sub-genres. I could target every reader of Yaoi and I wouldn't interest most of them, as the bulk of Yaoi readers are looking for 15 year old boys to lust after, not older men. Shota Yaoi is far more popular than Barra Yaoi, making it difficult to market the type of Yaoi I write and requiring me to not only know the demographics of my target reader, but also, how to reach my target reader, given that my target reader is elderly women who don't have internet or ereaders.

How do they find my books?

I printed up about 100 paperback copies. Then went to Zazzle and printed up stickers that read: "Waiting Room Copy" Slapped the stickers n the book covers, then went to every doctor office, dentist office, community center, and hospital waiting room in the county and left free copies of the books in every one of them.

One of those places was the Ross Center, home of the 50Plus Book club, for Maine's senior citizens. My screaming fan-grannies spread the word to their tour bus and cruise ship travel club groups. Now there's a whole bevy of horny screaming fan-grannies obsessing over my naked Elf boys.

I hand out a few hundred business cards each month every summer at the local beach which gets 2 million senior citizen tourists each summer.

I'm a guest at every car show, lecture, comic/game/geek/cosplay convention I can find. I do book signings year round.

I've yet to do any online marketing. So far I've not needed it. Unless you count the hundreds of sample chapters, made free to read online on my author website. My website was started in 1996, has 10,000+ how-to articles for writers, has 300k email subs, and gets 24k to 70k visitors a month depending on time of year. So, having an author website definitely helps.

But still, offline marketing is king.

Remember, only 1/3 of the American population has access to internet and offline marketing is still far more powerful then online marketing.

ETA:

Just thought of something I forgot to mention but had intended to mention. You asked about sales and income and I got side tracked and forgot to say that part. :P

How much have you guys made from writing? How many do you guys sell per month? How profitable was your first novel as compared to your second and third and fourth etc?

Price also effects both sales and income. So be sure to NEVER price a novel under $4.99. You want to be able to get the 70% royalty AND you want to earn a minimum of $3 per book sold.

Even for short stories NEVER do .99c. Sell the short stories under 10k for $1.99 and over 10k for $2.99.

Remember a .99c book only earns .35c income, meaning you have to sell tens of thousands of copies to make a livable income off it.

Too many authors under price their books. Priced too low, you'll not earn an income.

My series was free to read online, on FanFiction.net. Every few days I uploaded a new chapter. So for about 20 years, the series made no money at all. The series got deleted off Fanfiction.net, during the adult purge of 2012, that mass deleted 11,000 member accounts all at once. That was when I, at the request of fans of the series, began formating the series into novels to sell on Amazon. The first of these went up in 2014. Five novels of the series are currently on Amazon, 81 more are in various stages of formating to go up over the next couple of years. And the grand total of everything that had originally appeared on fanfic.net, is projected to span a whopping 275 novels total, to be published on Amazon over the next 12 years.

Here are the sales figures...

Please remember that due to previously being on fanfi.net each of these volumes, had a large already there, fan following. Each of these books had fans who had previously read them years ago, waiting to read them again. Thus, when their re-release was announced, each of these books, sold:

  • 1,000+ copies the first day of publication, with-in the first hour of going live.

  • Each of these books got a few hundred more copies the following day.

  • Each got a few hundred more copies the following week.

  • After the first month, MOST of the fans had bought copies, and sales dried up near completely within 60 days of the release date.

  • For the first 6 months of publication, each title continued to see 10 or 12 sales a week.

  • After that each title saw fewer than 10 sales per month.

  • Currently, now 3 years after the publication date, each title receives 1 to 4 sales per month.

  • Though 1 of these books ranks as the #1 bestseller for one of it's categories, each of these 5 titles currently has a sales rank of the low millions. It was around 2 million when I last checked and it's probably around 3 million by now.

  • I can typically plan on a Twighlight Manor/Quaraun Series book selling 3k minimum to 7k maximum copies with-in the first year of it's release.


So how does this translate into income?

The ebooks editions sell for $7.99, the paperback editions sell for $14.99. After Amazon takes their cut, I make $3 per copy sold (for both print and ebook editions).

3,000x$3 means that my top selling titles will bring in a grand total of no more then $9,000 in their lifetme

1,000x$3 means that MOST of my titles will never reach bringing in a lifetime total of $3,000

10x$3 means that MOST of my titles will earn me around $30 income per month.

Most months the Quaraun series brings in less than $200 a month income.

If you are unfamiliar with the Quaraun series, some important insights into why it's so loved by fans and so hated by almost everyone else:

  • Stories featuring violent rape fantasy CBT torture sex scenes with the violent Vampire Lich Seme BoomFuzzy the Unicorn nearly raping his victims to death are the ones that get the most sales and can top 10k copies sold and can also go for very high prices.

  • 27 volumes of the series were previously on Amazon and have been banned, with only 5 now remaining still available.

  • The series is rape fantasy, originally written in the 1970s and published in taboo, underground grind-house porn zines. It's unlikely authors today could publish this sort of fetish work easily.

  • The main character, Quaraun, is a masochistic Necromancer, his lover a sadistic Unicorn (horse) 

  • I specialized in VERY violent graphically gore filled Vampire feeding necrophilia/murder/rape scenes. 

  • It is not uncommon for the main characters, Quaraun and Unicorn, who are serial killers, to massacre a group of white-power nazi Humans then have a sex orgy on the dead bodies, as they both get turned on by killing people, and end up horny as fuck after killing someone.

  • Quaraun is a cannibal and eats other Elves.

  • In spite of it's cheerful pink covers, the Quaraun series is one of the single most blood spattered, gore filed, splatter punk gore feasts ever written...the series is not for the squeamish and people who get toe curls probably want to avoid it

  • Nearly every volume features Unicorn skewering victims on his horn, them raping Quaraun in the pile of entrails.

  • I have one VERY taboo short story that sells for $75 per copy, and can't be sold on Amazon due to the extreme taboo nature of the sex scene.

Welcome to the world of Unicorn Porn.

If you are not into freaky fetishes, you'll likely need eye bleach and brain bleach and Men in Black Memories zappers after reading a volume of the Quaraun series.

And people wonder why the series gets so few reviews? No one wants to admit they enjoy reading the darkest slums of the Monster Porn sex dungeons.

Hope that helps.





What Is This Site?

I'm an author. This is an author home page. It's about me, my life, my books, my hobbies, my home town, and anything else that applies to me and my life. 

Since starting my writing career in 1978, I have written 130+ novels, 2,000+ short stories, 6,000+ non-fiction articles (ALL are found on this site), a few dozen stage plays, 12,000+ blog posts, and a few comic book scripts for Disney's Uncle Scrooge and Donald Duck (I only worked for Disney one year (in 2005) and only wrote a few stories for their Danish comic books).

NOTE: I ONLY write the Quaraun series (aka The Twighlight Manor series aka The Adventures of Quaraun the Insane). In recent years there has been an issue with impersonators trying to pass books off as written by me, notably several non-fiction and Erotica books. I write neither nonfiction nor Erotica.

ALL of my books and their cover arts are listed on my website here. Beware of any books you find claiming to be me. If the books are NOT listed here on my website, they are NOT my books.

In fiction works, I specialize in Weird/Bizarro Tales set in 40th century CyberPunk-Quasi Medieval, Cozy Dark Fantasy and Science Fiction worlds featuring an intersex Elf and his Faerie husband main characters.  I DO NOT WRITE ANY OTHER SERIES - THIS SERIES IS THE ONLY ONE I WRITE.

Non-fiction (found ONLY here on my site) is daily updates of events in my life, and how-tos on how I write my novels.

I DO NOT write Erotica.

I DO NOT write books with HUMAN characters.

The Erotica books and books with Human characters, that you are finding, are written by scammers trying to impersonate me.

There is an ongoing FBI investigation into this matter. If you find any such books, please report them to FBI Agent Andy Drewer @207–774–9322

The FBI believes the people behind the impersonation accounts showing up, are relatives of the woman who murdered my son.

People always ask why I have a video recorder running 24/7. Watch these 4 videos of The Scarborough Walmart.


 I have a video recorder running 24/7. Because this parking lot is where I was attacked a second time by the woman who crippled me with the golf club at Southern Maine Community College in 2013 (who also murdered my 8-month-old son at the same time) this is the location of her 2nd attack,  the July 2016 attack with a shopping cart, the attack that left me in a wheelchair and despite over 200 "security cameras" and signs saying there are cameras in use... the police did not find even ONE actual REAL camera. Every "security camera" on this building and parking lot was ALL fake "dummy cameras" and that is why there is no video footage of my son's murderer. 

I started carrying a camera 24/7 the very next day after Scarborough police informed me they could not identify the blonde woman who attacked me or her gold Volvo 240GL station wagon, because EVERY CAMERA at this store's parking lot was an empty case with no real camera inside it. My son would be 12 years old this Christmas 2025, and his murderer walks free, still unidentified because this parking lot did not have real cameras. 

Those things that look like cameras on the building and light poles, are fake, according to the Scarborough Police Department. That is why I have a camera running 24/7, because my son's killer walks free because there was no camera the day we were attacked.


While you are here, please take the time to read this:

Who is Tod Murphy? 

Do you know who this woman is? She might be the woman who murdered my son. 

146 Portland Ave, Old Orchard Beach, Maine, is NOT FOR SALE.

And I'm sick of real estate agents who are too incompetent to research land ownership before they show up to stick a for sale sign in my yard.

The fact of the matter is, my son was murdered in 2013, and the friends and family of the murderer think it is funny to keep ILLEGALLY listing my land for sale, because apparently their child murdering bitch friend didn't hurt me enough by crippling me with a golf club, ripping my baby out of my 8 month pregnant belly and beating his brains out on the ground with a golf club.

Also, her friends and family like to gaslight me by doxing me on ufo and alien abduction forums, while pretending to be me, and trying to make it look like I believe in ufos or aliens, even though I think people who believe in ufos are raving lunatics and people who claim to be alien abductees are crazy. 

Worse, they've also taken to harassing my WW2 vet homeless friend, by calling HIM an alien, demon, or cryptid and sending alien crazy ufo nutjobs at try to "catch him".

So, yeah, my son was murdered and the murder's friends and family endlessly harass me, my friends, and my family both online and offline, and I'm not happy with it at all.

There is an ongoing FBI investigation into this matter.

The FBI is looking for information into:

  1. identifying my son's murderer, 
  2. identifying the scammers who listed my land for sale, 
  3. identifying the impersonators who pretend to be me both online and offline, 
  4. the harassers who are harassing the homeless man and sending the UFO nuts to harass him... 
  • If ANYONE tells you 146 Portland Ave Old Orchard Beach, Maine is for sale:, please report them to FBI Agent Andy Drewer @207–774–9322
  • If ANYONE tells you I believe in aliens, demons, or UFOS, please report them to FBI Agent Andy Drewer @207–774–9322
  • If ANYONE tells you my homeless friend is an alien, a demon, a cryptid, or named Etiole for sale:, please report them to FBI Agent Andy Drewer @207–774–9322


I'm going to repeat it because I'm tired of people showing up and making offers:

146 Portland Ave, Old Orchard Beach, Maine, is NOT FOR SALE.

There is NO ONE who has authorization to use my land.

NO ONE.

Not my mother.

Not my father.

Not Ben.

Not my mother’s Atwater relatives.

No one.

If ANY ONE hires you to do ANYTHING on my land, know that you are doing it ILLEGALLY and WITHOUT my knowledge or permission.

My mother has ZERO legal right to hire you to do anything at 146 Portland Ave. Old Orchard Beach, Maine.

My father has ZERO legal right to hire you to do anything at 146 Portland Ave. Old Orchard Beach, Maine.

Ben has ZERO legal right to hire you to do anything at 146 Portland Ave. Old Orchard Beach, Maine.

My mother’s Atwater relatives have ZERO legal right to hire you to do anything at 146 Portland Ave. Old Orchard Beach, Maine.




While you are here, please take the time to read this:

Who is Tod Murphy? 

Do you know who this woman is? She might be the woman who murdered my son. 




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