Several authors noted that they only included «professional»
short fiction sales, which might reduce the numbers.
Not only that, but looking at a scatterplot of the number of
short fiction sales and the year of the first novel sale, this appears to be busted going back at least 30 years.
I joined SFWA as an associate member in 2001, and upgraded to active as soon as I made that third
short fiction sale.
Not exact matches
Just use the above math to figure how many books you need to sell depending on the price of your book to make back your expenses at the base rate of 25
sales per month for novels and 5
sales for
short fiction and collections.
Short fiction, iirc, has to pay five cents a word to be considered a pro
sale.
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Fiction Military Non-
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Fiction Non-
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Fiction Regional — Non-
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Fiction Religious — Non-
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Fiction
Consider that you can write a
short story in a few hours, so
short fiction is an excellent way to boost your
sales.
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Three or more paid
sales of different works of
fiction (such as three separate
shorter works or half - hour scripts) totaling a minimum of 10,000 words that were self - published, indie published or sold to a small press at 6c a word after January 1st, 2013.
A
sale to a good market also helps you advertise your other work and most
short fiction markets return rights within a year.
-- Success or failure on such a plan will depend on your ability to make
sales traditionally with
short fiction.
Only available for
sale until September 2013 — then THE KEEPER will go into an anthology of dystopian
short fiction.
Some indie novels are priced at 99cents, but that price point is usually used for
short fiction or (temporary)
sales.
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All of my non-
fiction and
short fiction is getting way more
sales / borrows than it did but I'm pulling my novels in mid-November when their term is up.
Along with Pronoun, Macmillan purchased an innovative entourage that includes Booklr, a data analysis service for eBook
sales, and Byliner, which publishes «urgent, necessary journalism for the present day» along with
short fiction and serials.