A newer writer told me
she wasn’t going to worry
about sales.
She planned to give
all her books away.
That’s not a business.
It is a hobby.
And it isn’t sustainable.
Even free books
have a cost component
to producing them.
Unless she has funds
to sink into that hobby
forever,
she HAS to have sales
to, at least, cover those costs.
We need sales
or donations
or some other source
of income.
We have to,
at the very least,
cover our costs
in the long term.
Figure out
what YOUR sources of income
will be.