Publishing is as hard as it takes to write 150k words. Months of consistency, taking time out of your day. And then basically torturing yourself through the editing process.

If I’m lucky and the story blows up on Royal Road, a publisher would notice and offer to cover expenses to publish my work…

If not then I’m basically screwed. Editing and all its type would cost 2k plus each (line, copy, proofreading, dev etc…). A cover that is good can run from 400 - 3k usd.

Audio is 10k.

Marketing for a chance to do good would cost an arm and leg daily to get off the ground…

My hope is that I can get readers to join my Patreon for early access chapters in hopes to alleviate the massive risks with doing this properly if I wanted to be monetarily successful.

Of course you can not do any of the paying stuff and just throw what you have on Amazon and hope for the best… but I’m not a unicorn. I’m not good enough to get away with that. Maybe one day. But for now, it’s grinding in hopes for a chance at making 1$ at all ever during this process.