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akjeNote to self:
Make your books do double duty. For instance, before Amy Tan ever published The Valley of Amazement, she published an excerpt entitled Rules for Virgins, and still makes money from both.
Likewise The Bishop's Candlesticks by Victor Hugo is often published as a short story, but it's actually a chapter from Les Misérables. The Bishop's Candlesticks was also rewritten as a play, though not by him, and Les Misérables was rewritten as a musical and a screenplay. If Hugo had created all those adaptations himself, he'd have made enough money to save all the destitute in Paris. (っ＾▿＾)۶ ٩(˘◡˘ )
It's also not unheard of to rewrite a book as another book and then sell them both under different titles. Charlotte Brontë's first novel The Professor got rejected, so she reworked it into Villette, which did very well. Both books are sold today, sometimes as independent novels and sometimes grouped into collections, which means double double duty. ٩(˘◡˘)۶
This might not be such a bad idea now that my first two books have been pirated because I stupidly kept them DRM free. I haven't been able to find DRM locked books by anyone I know that have been pirated, although I've found plenty by friends that weren't locked that have been, so DRM must work. A shame it's come to this, but evidently there are far more evil people in the world today than good people. I only sold about five copies, and those to pirates! but more than 2000 copies were stolen, meaning a loss of $6000. Evil people therefore outnumber decent people by thousands. (╯︵╰,)
These books could be reworked and republished under new titles, though, and locked this time around. Maybe not the best solution, but the only one I can think of right now. ¯\_(ﭢ)_/¯
Make your books do double duty. For instance, before Amy Tan ever published The Valley of Amazement, she published an excerpt entitled Rules for Virgins, and still makes money from both.
Likewise The Bishop's Candlesticks by Victor Hugo is often published as a short story, but it's actually a chapter from Les Misérables. The Bishop's Candlesticks was also rewritten as a play, though not by him, and Les Misérables was rewritten as a musical and a screenplay. If Hugo had created all those adaptations himself, he'd have made enough money to save all the destitute in Paris. (っ＾▿＾)۶ ٩(˘◡˘ )
It's also not unheard of to rewrite a book as another book and then sell them both under different titles. Charlotte Brontë's first novel The Professor got rejected, so she reworked it into Villette, which did very well. Both books are sold today, sometimes as independent novels and sometimes grouped into collections, which means double double duty. ٩(˘◡˘)۶
This might not be such a bad idea now that my first two books have been pirated because I stupidly kept them DRM free. I haven't been able to find DRM locked books by anyone I know that have been pirated, although I've found plenty by friends that weren't locked that have been, so DRM must work. A shame it's come to this, but evidently there are far more evil people in the world today than good people. I only sold about five copies, and those to pirates! but more than 2000 copies were stolen, meaning a loss of $6000. Evil people therefore outnumber decent people by thousands. (╯︵╰,)
These books could be reworked and republished under new titles, though, and locked this time around. Maybe not the best solution, but the only one I can think of right now. ¯\_(ﭢ)_/¯