Can I ask y'all something?

I’m nearing completion of my second year’s worth of doing instant stories. I’m “looking forward” to another spate of wrist-crippling editing so I can get 366 [it’s a leap year of instants, this time] stories collated, corrected, indexed and ready to rock and roll, come early 2015.

The thing is… I’m not sure if it’s worth it.

One Year of Instants has had seventy-four downloads. Seventy four.

Of those, eight people bought the whole thing.

Of those, three people decided that a year of my life was actually worth some money.

So I need to know some stuff.

• Is it the cover?


• Is it the sample size?


• Is it the quality of the work?


• Is it the fact that you can still view all of these stories for free if you dig far enough back into my archives?


• What the flakk is wrong with this anthology?

Please let me know, as I would like to actually make a living selling this stuff. What do I need to do to make this better?

I need to learn for next time. Please help.