Comments on: The State of Indie Authorship in 2021 https://www.writtenwordmedia.com/the-state-of-indie-authorship-in-2021/ Promote your book to Written Word Media's audience of over one million readers. Read our blog for information on all things self-publishing. Sun, 01 May 2022 02:04:35 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.5 By: Sara Powter https://www.writtenwordmedia.com/the-state-of-indie-authorship-in-2021/#comment-100191 Sun, 01 May 2022 02:04:35 +0000 https://www.writtenwordmedia.com/?p=62185#comment-100191 Thanks for doing this survey! It really helps target our audience. I only started writing in Sept 2020, with my first book out in Jan 2021. Since then I’ve done 10 more. Being so new to the market my penmanship is unknown. I write Australian Colonial Fiction. which is a small genre, but is becoming more popular.

]]> By: Francine Beaton https://www.writtenwordmedia.com/the-state-of-indie-authorship-in-2021/#comment-94644 Sat, 02 Apr 2022 16:13:19 +0000 https://www.writtenwordmedia.com/?p=62185#comment-94644 In reply to Alicia Butcher Ehrhardt.

Thank you for the info. I must admit: I was despondent before reading this post. I saw all these indie authors on social media and it seems they are all successful and selling thousands of books (so it seemed!). Now I realize I am belonging to the third-highest earner group, which surprised me. Not that it had been like that. Before Covid, I was ready to give up, but I switched languages and genres and over the last year my sales and earnings increased. For which I’m grateful, of course. This helped me to focus again, just when I needed it

]]> By: Alicia Butcher Ehrhardt https://www.writtenwordmedia.com/the-state-of-indie-authorship-in-2021/#comment-87767 Tue, 25 Jan 2022 17:29:20 +0000 https://www.writtenwordmedia.com/?p=62185#comment-87767 The price of indie books is misrepresented. Ebooks and print books have different price ranges – if you price an ebook above 9.99, you are kicked into a lower royalty range than the 70% available between 2.99 and 9.99, and you lose money. However, print books can be priced appropriately (there are physical costs involved, and a different price structure). The results quoted above (How expensive is your most expensive…) should be quoted separately for ebooks and print books. Otherwise, you are comparing pineapples to squash.

]]> By: Clayton Noblit https://www.writtenwordmedia.com/the-state-of-indie-authorship-in-2021/#comment-86594 Fri, 14 Jan 2022 19:00:11 +0000 https://www.writtenwordmedia.com/?p=62185#comment-86594 In reply to Sean Bai.

Thank you Sean! And great catch, we’ve fixed the graph!

]]> By: Sean Bai https://www.writtenwordmedia.com/the-state-of-indie-authorship-in-2021/#comment-86347 Wed, 12 Jan 2022 07:39:31 +0000 https://www.writtenwordmedia.com/?p=62185#comment-86347 I liked reading this!

Advertising is my favorite part of the journey. Writing is much harder than advertising. Numbers are fun to calculate. I like the idea of being more efficient.

However, I’d like to point out one tiny mistake.

On the “Indie Author Earnings per Month” graph, the second bar from the top says “$100-2499″. It should say $100-249”.

]]> By: Clayton Noblit https://www.writtenwordmedia.com/the-state-of-indie-authorship-in-2021/#comment-78585 Tue, 23 Nov 2021 14:19:34 +0000 https://www.writtenwordmedia.com/?p=62185#comment-78585 In reply to Rachel Peterson.

Thank you Rachel! We had just over 1,000 authors complete the survey, and each question included in this post was answered by at least 950 authors. Hope that helps!

]]> By: Clayton Noblit https://www.writtenwordmedia.com/the-state-of-indie-authorship-in-2021/#comment-78584 Tue, 23 Nov 2021 14:15:06 +0000 https://www.writtenwordmedia.com/?p=62185#comment-78584 In reply to W. M. Raebeck.

Hello! We had just over 1000 respondents.

]]> By: Mary Hagen https://www.writtenwordmedia.com/the-state-of-indie-authorship-in-2021/#comment-78480 Tue, 23 Nov 2021 00:43:18 +0000 https://www.writtenwordmedia.com/?p=62185#comment-78480 The information was interesting and helpful. I found the duel genre statistics great. Money earned was helpful and encouraging. Thank you.

]]> By: W. M. Raebeck https://www.writtenwordmedia.com/the-state-of-indie-authorship-in-2021/#comment-78470 Mon, 22 Nov 2021 23:11:35 +0000 https://www.writtenwordmedia.com/?p=62185#comment-78470 Thanks. Interesting. Wondering how many authors participated in the survey…

]]> By: Floss Craig https://www.writtenwordmedia.com/the-state-of-indie-authorship-in-2021/#comment-78448 Mon, 22 Nov 2021 19:57:42 +0000 https://www.writtenwordmedia.com/?p=62185#comment-78448 This article has excellent info on each aspect of writing and publishing. It’s clear enough for a newbie to learn from and use. Thank you!

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