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Originally Posted by mr ploppy
That's the best reason to write, and why the reading world is so much better now that people have realised they don't need publishers telling them what to write.
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That's incredibly well said! And I don't think it's so much readers that have realized this as much as it is the authors. For a long time people thought I was insane for going small press. But the more I publish and the more I write, the more they're realizing that the choices I made were actually wiser than going the traditional big house route, which is really the lesser way to go anymore. We've already seen what's coming for the publishing industry simply by studying the other large industries that encounter major transformations before us. And the music industry has been out on the forefront of that transition. We're already starting to see how the cookie cutter "formula" mentality blew up in their face, is blowing up in the face of the movie industry, and will soon blow up in the face of the publishing industry as well. Change is coming, and it'll be the smaller, more agile presses that will come out of this storm alive.
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Originally Posted by DavidRM
Any given day, man. Any given day. 
You just can't predict how it's going to go. You have no control over being found or noticed. You just do what you can and hope for the best.
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Agreed. I've had days and even weeks where it's complete crickets, and then the next week it's Hurricane Alex. So I've just gone to a system of keeping 3 month averages, as that tends to be a more accurate representation of your sales than day to day or week to week, as anything less than 90 days for averages or 120 days for trends is far too short and allows natural variability too much control over your true numbers causing you to think you're either doing better or worse than you really are. In other words, it's just basic application of statistics.