Hello all!
I'm pleased to announce that I am uploading the Academy: Book 3 for release on Amazon right now! It will be available in 12ish hours.
Thank you!
Chad Leito
Chad Leito
Sunday, June 7, 2015
Wednesday, November 19, 2014
Hello All
I just wanted to inform you that I have submitted book 2 of The New Rome Series (formerly "The Baggers Trilogy") to Amazon, so it should be available for purchase in 12 hours or so on Amazon.com
Chad
Chad
Wednesday, October 15, 2014
Hello all,
I have a few items to share with you.
First, here is LauraTrev1's youtube review of my novel,
Outlive:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNXC_qkEUz8
Secondly, I'm pleased to announce that The Baggers Trilogy will now consist of 4 books rather than 3. The new series will be called "The New Rome Series." I expect the second book to be released later this month.
Take care,
Chad
I have a few items to share with you.
First, here is LauraTrev1's youtube review of my novel,
Outlive:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNXC_qkEUz8
Secondly, I'm pleased to announce that The Baggers Trilogy will now consist of 4 books rather than 3. The new series will be called "The New Rome Series." I expect the second book to be released later this month.
Take care,
Chad
Friday, August 29, 2014
New Book
Hello All,
I wanted to post an update. I just released a new book on Tuesday called Outlive (The Baggers Trilogy, #1)!
Also, The Academy Book 1 will be available for $0.99 for a short period of time as soon as the kindle countdown deal goes through.
Chad Leito
I wanted to post an update. I just released a new book on Tuesday called Outlive (The Baggers Trilogy, #1)!
Also, The Academy Book 1 will be available for $0.99 for a short period of time as soon as the kindle countdown deal goes through.
Chad Leito
Tuesday, July 29, 2014
Final Donation
Here is the final $3,000 that I owed to MSF! I want to, again, thank everyone for all the support!
Chad Leito
Saturday, June 28, 2014
Charity and Writing Update (Baggers Trilogy and The Academy)
Hello All,
I will attach two photos of donations to this post.
After this, I will still owe Doctor's Without Borders $3,000 and will pay this
as soon as I can get the funds transferred to the appropriate account.
I have been asked for an update on Book 3 of the
Academy, both on my blog and via email. I want to start off by saying that it
is extremely flattering to hear that readers are anxious for the next book in
my series. I don't have a set date for when book 3 will be released, and I
truly don't feel comfortable giving an estimate. At this time, I am taking a
semi-break from the Academy books. What this means is that I am still gathering
ideas and brainstorming, but I am working on a side project at this time and
have put actively writing book 3 on hold.
This 'side project' is called "The Baggers
Trilogy." As the word 'trilogy' suggests, :), this series will consist of
three books. I would estimate that book one will be released on Amazon at some
point in July of 2014 and that books two and three will both be released before
the end of 2014. I want to stress that these are estimates :). I also estimate
that I will recommence actively writing book 3 of the Academy as soon as I am
finished writing the Baggers Trilogy (near the end of 2014). I'm still in the
outlining phase of book 3, and as those who have read the Academy books know,
the plots are intricate and I cannot be sure how much time book 3 will take to
complete.
I'm very sorry to all of you who hoped for a quick
turn-around between the Academy books, but I hope that you will hear me out
when I say that I honestly believe that this short break from The Academy
Series will result in higher quality for book 3 and 4 (at this time, I believe
that the Academy will be four books long). I spent from April 2012 to February
of 2014 working solely on The Academy, as far as writing. Though I love
Charlotte, Asa, Robert King, the Davids, the Five Mountains, the Town, Conway,
and Francine Black, I felt that I needed to work on a separate project for a
few months so that I could become reenergized about the Academy and attack book
3 with a lot of excitement. I believe that writing The Baggers Trilogy will
give me a healthy separation from the Academy so that when I begin writing the
series again in late 2014 to early 2015, the plotlines, the setting, and the
characters will be fresh and invigorating for me.
I will leave you with the beautiful cover that
Chelsey and Caitlin Bateson made for me for The Baggers Trilogy: Book 1.
Enjoy!
Chad Leito
Saturday, June 14, 2014
Donation update
Hello all,
The time has come to catch up on my charity donations. After
this, I will have completed all of my promised donations, unless my actual tax
rate differs from my projected tax rate of 35%.
I think that a good place to start for these donations will
be correcting for the projected taz rate of last year. Last year, I projected
that I would pay 35% in taxes, when I actually paid 15%.
I’ve only paid through June of 2013, so my 2013 tax rate will
only need to be adjusted for those amounts. Between January and June of 2013,
my net profit was $3,910.32. In order to adjust the tax rate from 35% to 15%, I
need to pay out 20% of $3,910.32, which comes out to $782.06.
Now, I need to pay from July 2013 to March of 2014. For 2013,
I will withhold the actual 15% tax rate, but for donations in 2014, I will
withhold 35% so that I don’t get into trouble if the amount I owe in taxes
increases this year.
I will post the excel photos that go with these payments.
Amazon has a new feature in which they list out the payments that you have
received, however, being a new feature, these reports can only go back to
November 2013. So for November 2013 on, I will use this new feature. This adds
a quirk to the calculations, because of the fact that Amazon pays authors
ninety days after a month in which they’ve accumulated $100 in sales. Because I
did not meet this criteria in any currencies other than GBP or USD until
November, I will leave the calculations of the royalties accumulated in those
months in other currencies out of the equation to avoid double counting them.
July:
In the US, the books made $1,552.85.
In the UK, the books made 17.68 GBP, which converts to $29.70
USD
August:
US: $972.49
UK: 140.05 GBP which converts to $235.38
September:
US: $1058.47
UK: 312.62 GBP, which converts to $525.20
October:
US: $1831.11
UK: 380.57 GBP, which converts to $639.35
DE: 115.62 EUR, which converts to $156.09
November:
US: $2,675.64
UK: 266.94 GBP, which converts to $448.46
DE: 109.31 EUR, which converts to $147.56
December:
US: $3,338.72
UK: 198.75 GBP, which converts to $333.9
DE: 175.98 EUR, which converts to $237.57
January:
US: $4,040.38
UK: 152.05 GBP, which converts to $255.44
February:
US: $1,963.62
UK: 115.04 GBP, which converts to $193.26
DE: 100.74 EUR, which
converts to $135.99
March 2014:
US: $1,779.33
UK: 1,072.99 GBP, which converts to $1,802.62
So, from July to March, the
total adds up to be $21,014.41 USD
In my last post I donated
$4,000, which brings this number to $17,014.41
Since I’m taking 35% off of
that number for taxes, the profit is: $11,059.36.
Out of that number, then, I
paid for the cover for Mungus Book 1 and the cover for The Academy Book 2, both
of which cost $650. I also paid $500 total in that time for editing.
So, after subtracting 650 x 2
+ 500, the number becomes: $9,259.37
But then I must add back the
correction for last year’s taxes, which was $782.06, which makes the total that
is currently owed to MSF: $10,048.43!
WOW! That’s incredible! Over
$10,000 more dollars!
Due to different limits of
different payment cards of mine, I will be paying this in increments of $1,500.
Below I have posted the first of these installments and am moving money around
so that I can post the next payment receipt in a few days.
Thanks to everyone who
supported the charity,
Chad
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