Reader Question Day #75 – World of the Demonsouled and technical books

A reader using the name of Sherlock Holmes asks:

Will you be making more short stories for Demonsouled? If so, when?

First, let me say that it is an honor to receive a visit from the Great Detective himself. 🙂

Second, I’m going to write a DEMONSOULED short story next month, right after I do THE THIRD SOUL short novel I’ve been planning for a while. It’ll be called THE WANDERING ARCHER, and will be from Romaria’s point-of-view.

Bob asks:

Why haven’t you written any computer books lately?

Math.

Let me explain. The last computer book I wrote was THE WINDOWS 8 BEGINNER’S GUIDE. It took several months to write and do all the research for it (complete with over 100 screenshots), and it finally came out in November of 2012.

It sold 19 copies that month, and since then has sold a grand total of 219 copies.

Immediately after I wrote THE WINDOWS 8 BEGINNER’S GUIDE, I started writing SOUL OF SKULLS. That book came out in January of 2013, and its first month sold 569 copies, and has sold a total of 3,021 since then.

So, when it comes down to it, fiction is a better use of my writing time than nonfiction.

And I cannot tell you how incredibly weird it is to say that. When I got into self-publishing in 2011, I thought I would do mostly computer books, with an occasional dabble in fiction. Instead it’s the other way around.

It’s just as well. I do like writing technical non-fiction, but I like writing fiction more. 🙂

-JM