Now Pay What You Want for Who Needs the Moon

Pay what you want for the complete series as its released
PDF version -> https://gum.co/KoYM
CBZ version -> https://gum.co/RYpi

Since releasing the digital comic version of Who Needs the Moon, I have been racking my brain to come to a good comprise on price point. I want to give readers a good value, but I want to try and eek out a living doing it.

I don't know what kind of disposable income people have, but they apparently don't want to dump much of it on indie digital comics. I'm assuming this, because the books don't appear to be selling well on ComiXology or DriveThruComics. Where I naively always imagined they would generate at least a few hundred bucks a month anyways.

Fortunately for all involved, Gumroad allows sellers to give their customers the option to pay what they want.

At first I was hesitant to use the option, because I just figured that nobody would pay for the comics, and then I'd have some major explaining to do to my wife. But after trying out some gift codes, that allowed readers to pick up the comic for free and then pay something if they deemed it worthy, I discovered that people actually would pay something for it.

I still can't make a living off creating comics, but with Pay What You Want, the books actually get into the hands of more readers and I get a little something back for it.

P.S. A big thank you to the buyers that paid a greater amount than the average. I hope someday to make it up to you!

Who Needs the Moon #1 has been pirated!

So I was alerted today by Google Alerts that a torrent had been put up on the interwebs of the first issue of Who Needs the Moon.

Ha!

Although it is lost sales, it is nice to see that there are people on there sharing and interested in grabbing my comic.

Maybe some day they'll be interested in buying.

$1 isn't much, but its all a matter of perspective. For some places in this world, one American Dollar is a lot.

 You can still support me though if you can afford it by clicking the links.

http://bit.ly/14cmzB6 to ComiXology
http://bit.ly/1eyn7Gu to DriveThruComics

Through me on the gumroad https://gumroad.com/l/KoYM

4th Who Needs the Moon Review!

Woke up this mornin'
(insert blues guitar riff)
Turned my tablet on
(more guitar)

And that song is going no where...

Anyways, I woke up this morning, and surprise! laptopzombie.co.uk posted a great review of the first issue.

http://bit.ly/160ARob

The last 12 days since the release of the comic has been a strange experience.

On the 7th, when it was released on ComiXology, I was strangely muted and spent a few days afterward like that.

My book was released along side some other titles in the Submit section that have been garnering attention. Or were starting out with a lot of buzz based on who the creative team were.

It made me feel that mine was being overshadowed. But at the same time, I felt that it was a good group to be a part of, because it probably gave my title better initial exposure.

As it currently stands, I have absolutely no way of knowing how it is selling. ComiXology doesn't provide any tools for the indie guys to see what a typical sales day looks like. Which makes sense considering, the majority of publishers on there, print is still their big money maker and digital sales are just something they dabble in.

But for the little guys like myself, while daily or even weekly sales reports would do little to help us out, they would provide either a morale boost or a shot in the arm to start figuring out new ways to market the title.

Drivethrucomics offers sales reports, but these just serve as a sovering reminder that I need to get the word out better.

"... it’s the sophistication of the narrative, its emphasis on characterisation, that makes it so grown-up."

So, it's always nice to read a review. It is especially nice to read a glowing one. Today laptopzombie.co.uk posted such a review and its got me smiling from ear to ear. Maybe Who Needs the Moon isn't selling like hot cakes. But at the very least, there are people out there, who really like it.

Thanks to the guys over at laptopzombie.co.uk!