{"id":1666,"date":"2014-01-03T05:30:38","date_gmt":"2014-01-03T10:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.graymanwrites.com\/blog\/?p=1666"},"modified":"2014-01-03T05:30:38","modified_gmt":"2014-01-03T10:30:38","slug":"on-reaching-the-ten-percent-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/on-reaching-the-ten-percent-point\/","title":{"rendered":"On Reaching the Ten Percent Point"},"content":{"rendered":"

All told, at the end of 2013 sales of my CD had reached the 10% point.<\/p>\n

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\n(Image by Paul Cory Photography<\/a>.)<\/em><\/p>\n

Ten percent of what? Ten percent of what it cost to write, record, engineer, produce, and market the thing.<\/p>\n

I released the CD at the end of August, so it took 4 months to get to this point. If sales continue at the rate of 10% every 4 months — an optimistic estimate, since usually sales drop off after the initial surge —\u00a0then it will take me another 36 months, or until January 2017, to break even on this project.<\/p>\n

This, ladies and gentlemen, is what we refer to as a “labor of love.” Or sheer lunacy; take your choice.<\/p>\n\"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"pinterest\"<\/a>\"linkedin\"<\/a>\"mail\"<\/a>by <\/span>\"feather\"<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

All told, at the end of 2013 sales of my CD had reached the 10% point. (Image by Paul Cory Photography.) Ten percent of what? Ten percent of what it cost to write, record, engineer, produce, and market the thing. I released the CD at the end of August, so \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[277,21,387],"class_list":["post-1666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing","tag-filk","tag-music","tag-writing-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1666"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1667,"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1666\/revisions\/1667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}