Ronin Arts: Sci-Fi Artist Needed for PDF Series

[philreed]

Ronin Arts will be starting production on a new PDF series written by James Maliszewski. We need one artist capable of doing 2-5 illustrations for each PDF released in the series (about one PDF/week).

The artist needs to be able to do both soft objects (people, aliens, world landscapes) and hard objects (tech!).

The artist will retain the rights to his artwork -- we are only interested in the right to use the artwork in this series (in PDF and a possible print collection) -- and the artist will be paid a royalty on sales (monthly).

Any artist interested in this, and who has the time to commit to a series, please send me a link to samples. I can be contacted at:

philip@philipjreed.com

Thanks.

[Jason J. McCuiston]

Email sent.

Thanks for the op.

--JJM

[Artmann100]

.. email sent.

:D

Brad

[philreed]

Here's something I thought people may be interested in. The numbers are examples only but they're very, very close to what an author or artist could make by taking a royalty arrangement with Ronin Arts. Please note that the royalty % depends completely upon the author/artist's skill and reputation and how much work we'll need to do on our end to get the product finished and released.

BEGIN PHIL'S BLAH BLAH BLAH . . .

The thing to keep in mind with PDFs is that volume is important. I've worked with several people who have done one or two PDFs with us and they make between $0 and $15/month on their PDFs. I, personally, make about $1,500-$2,000/month on PDFs but I have a lot of them that I did. One author, who has over 20 PDFs through Ronin Arts now, makes $250-$400/month and with each new release he makes more money.

To run some rough numbers, going by assumed sizes and prices, one new PDF in this series -- a week -- should sell 10-20 copies/week for the first month and then slow to 5/week for six months and then down to 1/week. If we assume the PDF is 20 pages and priced at $5 you would make:

Week 1 -- 15 copies -- $75 -RPGNow cut = 60 x 35% = $21 to you
Week 2 -- 15 copies -- $75 -RPGNow cut = 60 x 35% = $21 to you
Week 3 -- 15 copies -- $75 -RPGNow cut = 60 x 35% = $21 to you
Week 4 -- 15 copies -- $75 -RPGNow cut = 60 x 35% = $21 to you
Week 5-31 -- 5 copies/week = 130 copies = $650 -RPGNow cut = $520 x 35% = $182 to you

So for the first (roughly) seven months you'd probably make $266 for 5 quarter page pieces. (Or, if you're an author, for about 12,000 words).

I can't stress enough how important volume is to this process. I've been releasing PDFs since September 2002 and just quit my day job last month (so I can devote all my time to PDFs).

Please note that the above numbers assume an average to average+ number of sales. Sometimes products do better (I had one sell almost 100 copies week 1) and sometimes worse (1 product in the first week).

PDFs are a risk but, in my experience, they're well worth the risk.


END PHIL'S BLAH BLAH BLAH

[Kalastos]

Actually, that's really good info to have. PDF's are such a different animal than the print world and they are still in their infancy so to speak so I think the numbers behind them are a big unknown to a lot of people.

D Malachi Penney
Kalastos

[smokewolf]

Damn Phil, I have never been envious of how LARGE ANOTHER MAN'S......."figures" are.

[philreed]

Damn Phil, I have never been envious of how LARGE ANOTHER MAN'S......."figures" are.

:) I've been telling you guys you can make money with PDFs.

[thele]

:) I've been telling you guys you can make money with PDFs.

It's true. I may not be making big profits like phil, but I have at least broken out even on several of my books (or will in the next 6 months)... then again, Reed works like 21 hours a day. Some say he never sleeps.

In anycase, Phil said something to me that I will never forget, "self publishing can be very rewarding". I see that now. I love publishing.

Phil's a top notch guy to work for.

~Le