What has just happened?
I am convinced that about one-half the money I spend for advertising is wasted, but I have never been able to decide which half.
(John Wanamaker)
A few days ago, I published Bent Goblin's Companion to "Drangonlance: Broken Silence" for free on the DM's Guild. It is a companion piece (no pun intended) to the commercially not very successful Bent Goblin's Companion to "Dragonlance: Scales of War" which until the beginning of this month had sold 17 copies since it publication in January.
I advertised the publication on this blog twice: once upon publication on May 3rd and a second time as postscriptum to the latest post of my developer's diary for my current project "Release from the OGL Vault" on May 8th.
This morning, I had a look at the "royalty report" on the publisher's pages of Bent Goblin Press on the DM's Guild. I found this:
Right now, I can see the numbers slowly climbing, we are now at 512 rather than 487 "sales" of Bent Goblin's Companion to "Drangonlance: Broken Silence". Here is the development since the May 3rd:
What has just happened? I'd love to think that I have an avid readership for my developer's diary, but I think that would be kidding myself -- I am rather convinced that currently, nobody really reads my blog. If that assumption is wrong, dear readers, please give me a sign (ideally by rating the publication on the DM's Guild or, better yet, subscribing to my blog ;)
No, I think it is much more likely that the publication has been mentioned somewhere, but I have no idea where that could be. Hopefully, I will find out some day so I can thank whoever was so kind to provider a pointer to my publication!!! Or ... is this just what happens to everything that is free on the DM's Guild? After all, with the world as an audience, 600-700 who take something for free maybe is not really much at all?
By the way, there is little bit of conversion of "sales" (well, it is for free) of Broken Silence to actual sales for Scales of War: right now, we are at 26 sales, which is getting really close to the original goal of 30 which actually got Bent Goblin Press started :) All in all, I had a great start into today!