by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n
I’ve sold a few short stories on Smashwords. I’m thrilled.<\/strong><\/p>\n Back in February 2011<\/a><\/strong>, I declared that I was posting my short stories on Smashwords<\/a>. To date, I have sold about $65 worth of stories.\u00a0I am pleasantly surprised.<\/p>\n The key to selling as many stories as I have is the Smashwords Premium publishing program. To go into that, you have to format your entries in a specific manner and get an ISBN. Neither of these steps is difficult. There are templates that I copied to submit the proper MS Word format. Obtaining an ISBN is also easy through the Smashwords site.<\/p>\n Being a premium publisher means that the stories are available through Apple, Barnes and Noble, and others. About 90% of my sales have come through these non-Smashwords channels.<\/p>\n Note <\/strong>– I did not pay Smashwords a penny up front. Smashwords takes a little money from each of my 99-cent sales. Neither of us are becoming rich.<\/p>\n Also note – I wrote these short stories in 2008 as an exercise to see if I could write a short story every week for the year. I did. Hence, this $65 comes from something I did with no intention of making a penny.<\/p>\n I have a \u00a0few goals<\/strong>:<\/p>\n (1) Have a Hollywood producer discover one of my stories, make it into a movie, and I get a million dollars in royalties from the blockbuster.<\/p>\n (2) Sell a hundred thousand short stories every year ($60,000 or so in royalties) for the rest of my life.<\/p>\n (3) Have fun writing short story fiction.<\/p>\n I have already achieved goal number (3). The other two are a bit lofty, but a guy can dream.<\/p>\n For now<\/strong>,<\/p>\n I have started again writing short stories. I’m not on a one-per-week schedule. Some weeks I write three or four stories and other I am too busy with other things to write any.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" by Dwayne Phillips I’ve sold a few short stories on Smashwords. I’m thrilled. Back in February 2011, I declared that I was posting my short stories on Smashwords. To date, I have sold about $65 worth of stories.\u00a0I am pleasantly surprised. The key to selling as many stories as I have is the Smashwords Premium […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71,5],"tags":[191,128],"class_list":["post-923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fun","category-writing","tag-fun","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=923"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":924,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923\/revisions\/924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}