Pheia

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I write my stories for fun. Most of my books have been written in the early morning at Starbucks before going to work (in the days before I retired). The cost of my coffee and a croissant or bagel ran to about $6.50 a day. When you add that up over a year or so it costs a lot to write a book.

I produce my books as Kindle books because the process is simple and free. I sell my books on Amazon for $0.99 because that is the lowest price Amazon allows for a Kindle book. I make them free for five days out of every 90, which is as often as Amazon allows me to. At the rate my books sell, which is around one a day on a good week, I’ll have paid off the cost of writing them in about five years. So, in case you were wondering, I don’t make any money at this. That’s OK with me. It’s a hobby not a living.

I edit my work myself which, as any writer can tell you, is a terrible idea, but it is cheaper that way. Hiring someone else to do an edit pass would cost me thousands of dollars. I make half a dozen or so full editing passes over a book which means that I’ve read it an awful lot before you get to see it. I take all the feedback I can get from beta readers during the writing and after publication. It is because of that feedback that I update the text to fix spelling and grammar occasionally. If you buy the book from Amazon, you automatically get the update. I do not alter the story line (although I have been tempted in some cases.)

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