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Hi , welcome back to my author newsletter with alien peens, monsters, magic, and the readers who love them! Don't forget to check out my NEW website! It's all pretty and redesigned! www.steviemarie.com

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Check out my newest Release this week! Her Alien Delegate!

It's been 3 days since Her Alien Delegate Launched

In that time, there were 34 direct pre-ordered from my author store before launch.

37 pre-ordered on Amazon.

With around 4-7 people grabbing the book each day since launch.

And 14330 pages read in the last 3 days in Kindle Unlimited, which is the equivalent of the book being read 57 times, and getting around $1 for each readthrough.

Happy Reading!

What Readers are Saying about my newest release Her Alien Delegate!

"A steamy alien-human fated mates RH romance, exploring love, survival, choice, trust, family, sacrifice, healing, political intrigue, and loyalty. It’s about survival in the face of betrayal, choice when freedom feels out of reach, the struggle to build trust across fear and loss, and bonds forged in fire." - Kymagirl

"OMG. I finished this book within a couple hours!! It was glorious, had the spice and a HEA!! And 3 hot alien men to boot!! You will not be disappointed!" 5-star Reviewer Desiree

"The guys have TENTACLES!!!And how they use them to worship Evie!" 5-star reviewer Sandra

"Sky Robert is never—NEVER—boring! Her aliens are TRULY alien, and these stories are as much about immersing us in the weirdness as they are about the sex." 4-star reviewer Jeanne

If you like tentacles, an absurd amount of alien seed, and caring aliens that worship their human mate then this is the book for you!

https://books.steviemarie.com/aliendelegate

Her mating contract is sold. Her future and freedom uncertain. Until an alien leader scours the universe to keep her!

Protective partners
Bonding rituals
Fated mates
Reverse harem/polyamorous (3 mates) FMMM
Tentacles
Breeding

OUT NOW! Her Alien Delegate from Amazon in KU

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Hey Luvs!

Her Alien Delegate launched this week on Tuesday, and even though I had my doubts about whether I was writing a book that my fans wanted to read or not, you've definitely assured me during the launch week that people do want to support my books and read more from the universe. That makes me very happy, and I'm relieved that Her Alien Delegate might actually break even on launch costs within launch month.

We are 61% of the way towards breaking even on launch costs of bringing Her Alien Delegate to life.

Hopefully, if the book continues to do well, that I can save up funding to afford editing for the next launch!

My goal is to one day be able to be paid for my writing time, and not simply avoid bleeding out on hobby funding by breaking even. Breaking even is a luxury many indie authors don't get to claim, so I am truly grateful, but I'd also like to have this be my career that puts food in my belly, and a roof over my head one day.

An insight into the mind of an indie author is that most negativity or self-doubt is easier to weather when you can face those burdens with the truth of how our words are wanted and valued enough to support. When we can tell ourselves and others that our books pay for themselves and for the food we eat, and the coffee that fuels us.

In the author industry, every book is a crowd funding experiment. Many readers must come together to support a book. An author needs a legion of readers.

That is around 5 to 6 thousand readers.

With a budget friendly book launch at around 1,000, and it may take around 3 months of writing to create with an average workers income of around 3,000 a month (where I live it's around 2,000 just for renting a 2 bedroom apt) That means the book should hopefully make a minimum of 10000 within a year of launch, though preferably 18000 to give a month for launch marketing and a break between books. that means around 50000 a year for 3 books minus the launch expenses.

So, in order to make a "living" as an author, each book should bring in around 18,000 within launch year. With an average income of around 2.7 per book when bought, or 1.2 per first kindle unlimited read through. (pages read after the first read through are not paid for, even if you read them in a different month than when you paid for the subscription.)

That means an author does in fact need a legion of readers to become a full-time author. That is around 6666 readers needed to buy a book, or if 70% of readers buy and 30% read in subscription that would take 4,666 readers to grab the book and another 4,354 readers in KU to make up the 30%.

Now, that's 9,000+ readers every year to make a living as an author. And that's if every reader read 3 books from me in a year. (As, of course, I would be their trusted favorite author.)

My biggest successful book is Her Alien Savior, totally 1,400 dollars earned with 641 from e-books, and 711 in KU pages read, and 56 in paperbacks. (I'm not including paperbacks from bookish events, as most of the time those events break even or cost me more than what I spend.) It cost me 900 to bring Her Alien Savior to life, meaning it's made a total of 500 in the past two years, since it came out August 2023. And I spent that 500 and more back into my author platform in giveaways to build my newsletter list, including over 8,000+ downloads of the book from two stuff your e-reader days.

I know my books are in the hands of well over 20000+ readers between Her Alien Savior's giveaways, the 10,000+ readers who have grabbed Her Alien Exchange free from this newsletter, and the giveaways for Jewel of the Alien Bandit. Perhaps, it's just a matter of learning Facebook Ads? Perhaps, it's just a matter of time. But, I know writing is in my blood and bones.

One day, I hope I can say that my books are more than a hobby, but my job. With each book released, it takes less and less readers in the legion needed to help support my books, because 1 fan can read through my whole backlog, and be the equivalent of 5 or 10 readers.

I spent 500 in launching Her Alien Delegate, and we are 61% towards breaking even. Once it breaks even, it joins the rest of my books towards paying off my author start up costs and my maintenance costs for my platform.

With 8 full-length books available, I need around 4444 books purchased to break even on my author platform costs and finally tell myself that my books finally buy me a cup of coffee from profit. 4,444/8, that's around 555 readers per book needed. I average around 5 to 6 new readers per book per month. It would take me around 111 months or 10 years to breakeven at my current rate of readership before I ever make a penny for my own time. It seems daunting to think about, but I don't plan on giving up. I just need to find a new strategy.

I guess I need to study up on advertising and hope my fans will help spread the good alien peen word in the meantime.

Thank you for supporting my books, because if it wasn't for you, I would have stopped sharing my books a while ago.

xoxo

Sky

Standalone plot with spice adventures of fated mates, space vampires, knotting, and bonds that will last beyond the stars! All available in Kindle Unlimited!

One of my goals this year is to get Her Alien Insurgent up to 50 ratings/reviews on Amazon! It's got 39 ratings on Amazon now, and 73 ratings on Goodreads! With a 4.8 average rating!

Check out all books by Sky Robert here: https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B0BNXSFHZ4/allbooks

Discover all books by Sky Robert:

1) Jewel of the Alien Bandit 2) Her Alien Exchange 3) Her Alien Prince 4) Her Alien Savior 5) Her Alien Warrior 6) Her Alien Insurgent 7) Her Alien Starbreaker 8) TKManAteHer -Short Erotic Terminator Sex Bot Romance 9) Her Alien Delegate Upcoming books: Her Alien Captor and Her Alien Nectar

Books by S.M. McCoy

1) Taking Medusa 2) Breaking Fate Upcoming: Reaping Olympus, Goblin's Treasure

All of my books are standalone alien romances, each a separate complete romance, read in any order, and with their interconnected plots, each book layers and you find out more about the world the more you read. Have questions from one book? Read another one, and you're sure to find more answers, and perhaps more questions as the universe unravels. That's what I love about sci-fi adventures set in the same universe, there's so much room to play!

Happy Reading and Thank you for being part of my author journey,

xoxo

Sky