advertising

i've just bought some google ads. just as a trial i've spent 30 quid and now in theory i should get people clicking and looking at the main flk website. i will report on how well it's going in a couple of days...

edits of stories and a new story

i am going to ditch "fluffy little kitten buys cat food" and replace it with stormy kitten or foreign fluffy.

I am going to take the vegetarian gag and the kitten is hungry gag from "buys cat food" and put it into fancy kitten to replace to spotty kittens marylin monroe gag - which is too obscure.

the ditching of "buys cat food" is that it fixes the series at a specific and pretty basic counting age. If you're primarily targetting adults with your books, it doesn't matter if you flit around the age of your reader, but for more general appeal as a kids book I'll focus on emotional, rather than counting style problems...

rejections

pretty much everyone I have sent the letter and documents to has said no if I enclosed a stamped addressed envelope. Whilst I'm still trying, the conventional method isn't really working.

i think time to produce them myself!!

in which case i have to do a little editing of the stories and maybe put together one more

two more rejections...

PFD and Eddison Pearson. I suppose the cheery thing to note is that all these letters appear to be the same.

volume print cost

Rob Hi

Your print prices as requested

Size; 148mm x 210mm (Landscape)Cover: 4pp printed in full colour one side only on 250gsm with gloss laminated outer.Extent: 48pp printed in full colour on 150gsm satinOne set of digital proofsBinding: Saddle stitchPrice:1,000 copies: £1,495.00
5,000 copies: £2,695.00
10,000 copies: £3,995.00

Regards

Richard

another rejection...

I'm running out of people. Will probably have to send out another batch...

selling business plan

the trick has to be £1 a book profit.

this means the plan is to drive all promotional activity to www.fluffylittlekitten.com

on this site you will have the following options - assume p&p at cost.

amazon. at £4.99 it's almost impossible to make a pound. if you just get the 40% then it's £2 revenue so 50p profit. I don't really want to encourage this but an amazon listing is important

ebay. I can offer individual books on ebay for £3.99 and leave myself quite a lot of leeway - even taking into account unsold inventory and monthly fees.

I can also offer sets of 6 on ebay for £17.99 (cause of ebay and paypal fees combined)

I can also offer to sell direct on site for £2.99 ond sets for £15.99.

these figures may be ammended - i'm a bit frazzled with figures.