Tag: 1099 income
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Kindle Vella – Why I Stopped Publishing
While the novels I serialized on the Kindle Vella platform didn’t end up with millions of views per the nature of the platform, they still caught enough attention to gain a monthly bonus payment. As of last month, I made the executive decision to remove my writing from the platform. This choice was in response…
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July 2023 – 1099 Income KDP + Kindle Vella
June was a zero income month from KDP and Vella as my engagement and posting had died down in April and May in preparation for the move. Now that we’re in the new state, I started publishing again in June and have seen an increase back in the amount of money coming in from my…
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May 2023 – 1099 Income KDP + Kindle Vella
May saw a significant decrease in income due to not having published anything since around March. This is because I was in the middle of moving cross country and did not have time to do much editing. However one of my stories has about 13 chapters pending editing that I’m working my way through. To…
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May 2023 – 1099 Dividend income
In may, our level of dividend investment dwindled as we suffered a minor income set-back which you can read more about in my post covering predatory employers and had to adjust our budget to protect our net worth. However we’ve still managed to grow this investment/income category! This time April 2022 we were earning maybe…
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April 2023 – 1099 Income KDP + Kindle Vella
I have a secret that not many are aware of, much like this website, I publish books under a pen-name. A few years ago I began to publish but the first book was a total flop – only my dad read it and it was NOT PG. Quickly, I gave up but still kept writing…