Susan Speaks: Donation to Haiti total

So back on January 11, I said that I’d be donating a portion of my royalties to the Red Cross, to help with Haiti. I wish I could donate them all, but I’m still a little bit in the red.

Let’s see how I did…

On January 13, I got a payment from Smashwords.com. My royalties there were $11.41

On January 18, I got a payment from Lulu.com. My royalties there were $9.80

That comes to $21.21

But there’s more… the royalties from what you guys bought that haven’t been paid out yet.
At Smashwords, there’s $1.81 waiting to be paid.

At Lulu, there’s $6.55 waiting to be paid.

And at the Kindle store, there’s … a mystery. Their reports are hard to read; I’m not sure if they owe me 3.50 or 7.00 — excluding anything you bought during January, as there are NO January records available yet. So we’ll have to exclude the Kindle store and reiterate that if you buy Demo Tapes: Year 1 and send me the receipt, I’ll send you a coupon for a free Year 2 via Smashwords.

If we figure a minimum of $3.50 for Kindle, we have $33.07

I still have some overhead to pay off — print copies of the books, promotional money spent — so instead of donating the whole amount like I wish I could, let’s halve it and see what we get…

$16.535

That’s not a monetary amount!

So let’s round that UP to the nearest nickle and we get … $16.55.

I like even numbers. Let’s call it a $17 donation, shall we? That’s just over 50% of the royalties that arrived either via payments or sales during the twenty days my offer ran.

There ya go. $17 to Haiti via the Red Cross.

Thanks for supporting me, The Demo Tapes project, and reading in general. Not to mention the people who really need it right now.

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Just a reminder… once I break even on my expenses, I’ll be donating larger portions to various charities. Stay tuned and keep supporting the books, even if all you do is spread the word. That helps more than I can tell you.