Someone recently reminded me that I haven’t posted anything, from a publishers perspective, about Gadarene–in quite some time. ^_^ The second quarter saw our biggest sales because of reviews!
Units moved to date: 57 Print copies, 12 eBooks, 3 Hardcovers
+These sales do not reflect books I gave away for reviews, promotions, to local libraries, or distributor solicitations – which equals to about 20 books, at my expense.
That’s not much is it? Well, I don’t have a distributor except for Amazon, and bookstores wont deal with me until I do. ^_^ It’s ok though, I’m not stressing this at all because I’ve got zero overhead at this point [I made all the money back I put into promoting the book at cons, and my small-bookstore market plan that went nowhere. ] So I’d say to date– I’ve made about $24 profit for this book after paying back my production and promotional costs–AND it’s only the 3rd Quarter…the year isn’t even over yet.
Yes, producing original print material is tough, but at this point–I’m not losing any more money, so it only gets better from here.
About Gadarene: In the notorious Five Points slum of 1870’s Manhattan, Galen ‘the Mongoose’ Driscol steps out of jail and back into the arms of his transgendered lover, Wira Boruta. When Galen tells Wira that he’s tracked down the man who tried to kill them as children, Wira is unwilling to listen, and pleads with Galen to forget the past, and live only for the future…their future. Only Galen doesn’t forget, nor does he forgive. He doesn’t give a second thought about exacting justice, but justice has a price, and it’s come to collect from the one person Galen loves most…
Via Amazon $16.99 | Via Amazon Reseller $8.24*-$14.99
Via EM-Novels ON SALE BECAUSE I HAVE ABOUT 5 COPIES LEFT ON HAND.
eBook $4.00 | KINDLE $3.99
Hardcover $21.99
A word about seller Warehousedeals. My printing is done by Createspace which is Booksurge–and both belong to Amazon.com Whenever they print a book that doesn’t meet retail standard [any crooked printing, pocked pages, ink dots-- etc, they cannot ship those to a reader that's paid full price!] they toss it aside.
Someone there then goes through and finds the copies most salvageable–then they sell them as ‘used-good’. 
I don’t complain because, they should be able to make back some money on the occasional POD-bonked book.
Amazon has the option of buying from me wholesale on my publisher page at Createspace, and they haven’t yet. I’d be annoyed if I found that they were selling Gadarene ‘new’ at a lower price, because this would indicate that they’re printing and selling my title without paying me my royalty! When I saw them listed on my sales page as a reseller, I made it a point to email and find out what was up: I learned that ‘used-good’ means they’ve got some minor-botched books and they’re cutting the price in half to move them.
