Sales!

You know, there's an interesting emotion that surrounds book sales. If it's your own book, it's kind of a predatory thing. Sales = Survival for many, many authors. Unless you're self-published and not existing on your royalties, sales are Super Important. They can be the difference between you getting another book deal with your current publisher or being left out in the cold and on the hunt again. This completely and utterly sucks because you don't make much money off just a few books. Lots of books - back list - is essential for most authors to make decent money.

Then there are sales for the Literary Lab.

We have two anthologies out now, and we donate all the royalties on both toward charity. The charity organization changes every year, and eventually we hope to make enough to also take a percentage and give it back to the authors as prize money. It's just a thought, and it also depends on how the anthologies do. For now, here are a few statistics for you.

NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND SALES
sold through Amazon/CreateSpace

76 print copies sold
16 Kindle copies sold
$291.00 royalties
£4.22 royalties

GENRE WARS SALES
sold through Lulu - but is now being switched to Amazon/CreateSpace and will be available on Amazon soon.

69 print copies sold
5 pdf copies sold
$237.89 royalties




Not too bad, but I think our sales could rock a lot more than that. What we'd love to see are more reviews and buzz going around about the anthologies. Judy Croome just put up the most amazing review on Goodreads and Amazon for Notes From Underground. Jeannie Miernik also left an amazing highlight review on her blog. Clarissa Draper also recently reviewed some stories from Genre Wars. Thank you, Judy, Jeannie, and Clarissa! So many of you have put up posts about the anthology and talked about it. Thank you! It would be fantastic if you could go rate the anthology on Amazon or Goodreads, as well, and maybe even leave a review if you can and link to it from Facebook and Twitter.

So, I'm thinking about the Literary Lab sales with a predatory gleam in my eye. The thing about this, however, is that you, our readers, can also get that gleam in your eye. These anthologies belong to everyone, and the more we publish the more of you will be published in them. That excites us!

To purchase Notes From Underground, visit The Literary Lab Presents... site.

Genre Wars will be available for purchase on Amazon in the next few days. We'll do an announcement when it's up.

The Notes From Underground Anthology is Available Now!

Grab it while it's hot! The Literary Lab's second annual publication is now out and ready for you to pick up!

We'd prefer our readers to purchase copies from the CreateSpace store. Although we don't mind at all if you prefer to go through Amazon, we do get a larger profit margin directly from the CreateSpace store, which means we get more money to donate to the Writer's Emergency Assistance Fund. Every cent of the proceeds for this anthology goes to charity.

PRINT COPIES through CreateSpace Store
$10 each 
click here

PRINT COPIES through Amazon
$10 each
click here

KINDLE COPIES through Amazon
$4.99 each
click here

We're very excited about this anthology, especially about what's inside. There are some fantastic stories we hope you'll enjoy. The list of authors and their words inside is as follows:

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Cee Martinez

Little Shark, Little Shark

Beth Overmyer

Mirror Image

Anne R. Allen

The Golden Age

No Happy Endings

Judy Croome

Whispers of Love

3 Triptych Poems

Anne Gallagher

Who Are You?

Taryn Tyler

Hellebore

B.A. McMillan

The Making of a Witch

J.B. Chicoine

Four Words

Erin Leigh Harty

Reflecting the Imperfect

Intermittent

Lisa M. Shafer

Voices From The Sidelines

Loren Eaton

The Apocalypse Closet

Jean Michelle Miernik

Notes From an Enchanted Castle

Summer Ross

Vanished Words

Nevine Sultan

The Smell of Closed Windows

Your Eyes Will Open

Candace A. Ganger

Before and After

Trade

Gone

Fumes

Yvonne Osborne

Maybe

Rachel Becker

The Truth of Her

Excerpts from Saving Throw, a young adult novel in progress

A Sedar Story

Little red riding hood undresses

Suicide at 90

Aerin Bender-Stone

TRAVELOGUE: AUSTRALIA 2002

Matt Zandstra

Competence

Simon C. Larter

The Return

And then the choir

Avoidance

R. Mac Wheeler

Hot House

C.N. Nevets

Terminal Instar

Lavanya Krishnan

Heat three spices in a pan

Susannah E. Pabot

Trees Without Trunks

**authors, if you'd like your name linked to your site, please let one of us know and we'll add it**

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Entries were put into the anthology at random. Every author was amazing to work with, and we look forward to another anthology for the year 2011. We hope all of our readers will consider picking up a copy of the Notes From Underground Anthology not only to support your fellow authors, but to get your hands on some very fine work. The book is a beautiful testament to the wonderful writers we have the privilege to interact with every day here at the Literary Lab, and we want to say thank you to each and every one of you for making The Literary Lab what it is today.

[Scott interrupts Davin's wonderful post to say: Hey, we've been waiting for this day for months and months and, yes, months! And it's finally here! This anthology is full of strong, imaginitive writing and I can't find words enough to tell you how pleased and honored I am to have been part of this fabulous party. It amazes and humbles me to think that so many talented folks hang out in our little corner of cyberspace. Thanks to everyone who entered the contest, thanks again to the amazing and infinitely patient Becca for doing All The Hard Work during the first phase of the contest, and thanks in advance to everyone who buys a copy of this wonderful collection. Also thanks (yes, I watched the Academy Awards on Sunday night; why do you ask?) to all of our brilliant readers here at the Literary Lab. Without you, it's just the three of us whining about our inability to write good Miley Cyrus short stories. Nobody wants that. Anyway, we are pleased to release this anthology into the world and pleased that you all could be here for its birth. We've made a lovely child, folks.]

Davin,
Michelle
&
Scott