First of all: congratulations on your achievement! This is excellent news!
Second... I think a lot of people reading this are going to be thinking, wow, she made $2500! Thinking of that as profit... but it's revenue. You paid $1000 for the editor. I think you said you paid also for the cover art and the layout. You're also going to be paying for the copies you promised to your sponsors and the postage to get it to them... I'm guessing it'll will probably be somewhere between $200 and $400.
When all that was done, was there any money left for you? I hope you paid yourself!
(I make this comment not to diminish your achievement, because it is a significant one and you should be proud. But part of what we're doing here is giving people a realistic idea of keeping yourself afloat as a crowdfunded artist, and part of that is being realistic about expenses.)
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Second... I think a lot of people reading this are going to be thinking, wow, she made $2500! Thinking of that as profit... but it's revenue. You paid $1000 for the editor. I think you said you paid also for the cover art and the layout. You're also going to be paying for the copies you promised to your sponsors and the postage to get it to them... I'm guessing it'll will probably be somewhere between $200 and $400.
When all that was done, was there any money left for you? I hope you paid yourself!
(I make this comment not to diminish your achievement, because it is a significant one and you should be proud. But part of what we're doing here is giving people a realistic idea of keeping yourself afloat as a crowdfunded artist, and part of that is being realistic about expenses.)