I'd be keen to hear in a future post about what your conversion rate ends up being of free readers --> subscribers seeking to get the ebook.
And also the same again if/when you release an Amazon ebook--how the sales of that go.
I have a serial I posted the first volume of to substack, but it gets the most reads from FanFiction dot net (where I also post it because it is Final Fantasy adjacent) and RoyalRoad. Some of those readers have converted to paying early access readers on Patreon, but I plan to edit up and release the serial as an ebook one day too, also to paying patrons and on Amazon.
Did you edit Triverse again before you turned it into an ebook?
And how many words will Triverse likely hit in the end? I'm at 220,000 with Saga of the Jewels, but aiming for 1,000,000. So about 25% through first draft after three years...
Interested to hear that you've converted some RoyalRoad readers. I've never found any success with that - while I have some readers there, they are silent and I don't think have ever shifted over to Substack.
For the subscriber version of Triverse I haven't done any further editing. It's the same content that's gone out on the newsletter each week. As and when I release as ebooks and paperbacks elsewhere, those will be fully edited.
I'm definitely at least halfway through Triverse. I'm not sure precisely how much is left, though. I know where the story is going, but the anthology-ish structure of it makes the actual path a little fuzzier than usual.
Wow, that's a lot of writing! Congratulations on the progress 🎉🎉🎉 I'm curious how you're handling distribution if not through Kindle yet. Are you emailing a dropbox or similar link?
I'm sending paid subscribers to a Bookfunnel landing page. Makes it nice and easy to download.
There are two options via BookFunnel:
1. If you're happy to pay a bit more you can have BF check against a list before someone is allowed to download. This doesn't currently integrated with Substack audiences, though.
2. I'm not doing any checks per se, but the download page does ask for the email address of the person downloading. That way I can check against my paid subscriber list. That's not going to scale easily, but at my current level of paid subs is easy enough to keep an eye on.
Other options I pondered were Dropbox or Google Drive links, potentially password protected. I thought BookFunnel provided a nicer experience for the subscriber.
I'd be keen to hear in a future post about what your conversion rate ends up being of free readers --> subscribers seeking to get the ebook.
And also the same again if/when you release an Amazon ebook--how the sales of that go.
I have a serial I posted the first volume of to substack, but it gets the most reads from FanFiction dot net (where I also post it because it is Final Fantasy adjacent) and RoyalRoad. Some of those readers have converted to paying early access readers on Patreon, but I plan to edit up and release the serial as an ebook one day too, also to paying patrons and on Amazon.
Did you edit Triverse again before you turned it into an ebook?
And how many words will Triverse likely hit in the end? I'm at 220,000 with Saga of the Jewels, but aiming for 1,000,000. So about 25% through first draft after three years...
Interested to hear that you've converted some RoyalRoad readers. I've never found any success with that - while I have some readers there, they are silent and I don't think have ever shifted over to Substack.
For the subscriber version of Triverse I haven't done any further editing. It's the same content that's gone out on the newsletter each week. As and when I release as ebooks and paperbacks elsewhere, those will be fully edited.
I'm definitely at least halfway through Triverse. I'm not sure precisely how much is left, though. I know where the story is going, but the anthology-ish structure of it makes the actual path a little fuzzier than usual.
Wow, that's a lot of writing! Congratulations on the progress 🎉🎉🎉 I'm curious how you're handling distribution if not through Kindle yet. Are you emailing a dropbox or similar link?
I'm sending paid subscribers to a Bookfunnel landing page. Makes it nice and easy to download.
There are two options via BookFunnel:
1. If you're happy to pay a bit more you can have BF check against a list before someone is allowed to download. This doesn't currently integrated with Substack audiences, though.
2. I'm not doing any checks per se, but the download page does ask for the email address of the person downloading. That way I can check against my paid subscriber list. That's not going to scale easily, but at my current level of paid subs is easy enough to keep an eye on.
Other options I pondered were Dropbox or Google Drive links, potentially password protected. I thought BookFunnel provided a nicer experience for the subscriber.
460+ pages already? Phew!
I was surprised! It's funny how full-size novels almost happen accidentally when you're doing a weekly serial.
Those 6 pages a week add up!