First week of royalties? Real talk.

Okay so my debut spicy holiday novella has been out in the wild for technically only 3 days but today marks the “end” of the first week of December in my book and I’m going to share with you my KENP reads, orders and royalties for these 3 days/one week.

My book officially published December 3rd and I got to work immediately. Posting and cross posting on Facebook, instagram and TikTok. Marketing the bajeezus out of it (still am 🥵).

What I’ve made so far:

Royalties total: $8.58 Orders for ebook: 2 KENP reads: 693

Facebook: 0 followers and almost no engagement (boo)

Instagram: 8 followers and garnered a few likes and a handful of views (getting better)

TikTok: 92 followers and several videos have thousands of views and I have 538 likes across the board and those numbers increase every day.

Biggest take away, TikTok is my biggest platform right now so I am focusing on being most active there right now.

Now I did spend money on an editor ($300) and ($20) on a TikTok boost so I’m still down $513)…TECHNICALLY.

I know it might not seem like a lot to some people but for me it’s huge. I wrote, edited and published an entire 70 page novella that managed to make me over $8 in 3 days and I’m getting a lot of interest with my book 1 in a longer series coming out next month so I’m kind of proud of myself.