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A Queer Indie Author’s Experience of 2024
Looking back on my top stories, sales stats, and best experiences of the year past, and looking to the year ahead!
Hello hello!
I’ve just been in the process of attending to my yearly tradition, ordinarily attended to in the last days of December and the first of January — I sit down with my new year’s calendar, and I write down all the vital dates and pieces of information.
On the current calendar in front of me — a charming Peter Rabbit family planner with a little attached whiteboard, as I wasn’t able to get the Discworld calendar this year — I’ve transferred over the birthdays of all my friends and loved ones, written down some of the main conventions of 2025 I’m planning to attend like TeratoCon, and other already established professional and social plans, as well as deadlines for different submissions.
As I’m looking ahead, I thought it would be worth looking back a little bit as well, for a nice bit of contrast!
Statistics for 2024:
Total Books Sold Through KDP (Amazon) in 2024: 1,548
1,265 of those units were eBooks and 283 were print books — my top performer was my first novel, Heart of…
