Here I am at the edge

Freebies are my death knell Yes, I did fail as a writer. You may question this statement, but the facts will defeat you at each turn. A) I wrote an award-winning collection of short stories wihch has not sold in over a decade. B) The more I check my "sales," the more I notice that most of these sales are not sales, but FREEBIES , for which I get nothing. C) I kept writing for a decade after my best-selling science fiction series stopped selling. In the hope sales would come from readers of the series, while knowing nothing would happen. The trouble with Free ebooks is once a person knows where to get them, the writer is dead, literally, as the person is NOT going to buy the product when they can get it for free, and you ask why I stopped writing.  

 I closed my Amazon and Draft2Digital pages This month, June 2022, I closed my sales pages on Amazon and Draft2Digital ; this is not a rash choice as it had been on the cards for years. I had friends telling me, for years, not to do this, but as usual my response hasn't changed over the decade since I began writing . I never earned enough for a cup of coffee a day, even at my height of popularity eight years ago.