Today something significant happened. I got an email from the digital publishing people to let me know that my first royalty payment is about to come through. This is very exciting for me, because since March of this year I have been writing and publishing digital books, and have not earned one penny. It's been mental at times, but at last I am about to actually move from square one to square two.
If anyone was wondering, that is the reason I haven't been blogging every few days as I did for the previous two or three years. I have been putting my writing skills to a different task - writing books. And it's starting to pay. Now I'm not under any illusions that having got my first £10 royalty check means Im going to be JK Rowling any time soon, or ever, but nevertheless, it just feels good to know that a business I started, selling my own work, from scratch, is about to see the first tiny green shoots of making some money and having some success. Financially speaking I know its nothing more than a couple of drinks at Costa Coffee, but its the inner satisfaction of knowing that I earned that, from nothing. I expect to get addicted to that feeling.
If anyone was wondering, that is the reason I haven't been blogging every few days as I did for the previous two or three years. I have been putting my writing skills to a different task - writing books. And it's starting to pay. Now I'm not under any illusions that having got my first £10 royalty check means Im going to be JK Rowling any time soon, or ever, but nevertheless, it just feels good to know that a business I started, selling my own work, from scratch, is about to see the first tiny green shoots of making some money and having some success. Financially speaking I know its nothing more than a couple of drinks at Costa Coffee, but its the inner satisfaction of knowing that I earned that, from nothing. I expect to get addicted to that feeling.
