business
The ledger side of writing, kept in public: royalty math against a cover-redesign invoice, Frankfurt and Leipzig on sore feet, a launch week that was a modest trickle and one reader email that outweighed it. A blunt reader once asked who pays for the trains. The answer is a post here, with numbers.
8 entries, newest first.
2026
What launch week actually looks like
· An honest account of a self-published launch week: a modest trickle, a refreshed dashboard, and one reader email that outweighed the rest.
The Pitch That Got a No
· On a side project politely declined, the usefulness of a clean refusal, and why I am not staging a grievance from Bishkek.
Who Pays for the Trains
· A blunt reader email asked how I afford the research travel. Fair question. Here is the plain ledger: scholarships, freelancing, and what I choose not to buy.
Glass and spring light in Leipzig
· Notes from the book fair: the great glass hall, a panel, readers who linger, and tram rides washed in early spring.
The unglamorous math
· Royalties, payout thresholds, and whether a cover redesign is worth the invoice: a dry look at the business side of keeping books alive.
2025
Frankfurt halls
· Notes from the Book Fair: publisher meetings, a signing hour, sore feet, evening receptions, and imposter feelings handled dryly.
Almost nothing to report
· A quiet stretch of thin royalties and thinner pages six weeks before the first book exists, and the discipline of not performing panic for an audience.
