My only expensive outlay has been for an editing program. It was by my standards a large expense at over one hundred dollars. But compare that to the price of having one single book edited, and I feel I'll come out ahead. It's so difficult to edit my own writing. But yikes, I don't earn enough to pay an editor's fee. Not that I think they're out of line, just above my humble means.
I've bought one fifteen dollar ad, trying to push my sales at that overly well known outlet, where I sell virtually nothing. Had wonderful luck last year with several other retailers, though. Well, everything is relative. What is wonderful to me might be chump change to others.
Anyway, I think outlay should be held to below income. Or as Mom taught me, I don't count my chickens until after they hatch.
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