Month seven, and I want to be straight with you again. June was another step up.

Monthly Income: $333.14 Published Books: 16 (total now at 142 published)

Work is still demanding, life is still full, and I am still building this the slow and steady way. But the numbers kept moving in the right direction, and the story keeps getting easier to tell.

Total revenue for June came in at $333.14, up from $228.28 in May. That’s a jump of over $100 in a single month, and it marks the seventh consecutive month of growth. The trend line is no longer something I have to argue for. The catalog keeps compounding, and the income keeps climbing with it.

Let me put that in perspective. I started this in December with zero books and zero dollars. A few months later I was at $151. By April I had reached $209. By May I was at $228.28. Now I am at $333.14. Every month has been bigger than the last, and I have not done anything dramatic to make that happen.

I have just kept publishing and let the catalog do its job.

As I spoke of last month, the 16 books I published in May would start earning once they found their footing. They did. Part of this month’s gain is exactly that pipeline maturing, which is the clearest proof yet that the model works the way I hoped.

Speaking of the catalog, I am now sitting at 142 books published across the platform. Last month I crossed 126, and the climb has not slowed. I published 16 books again this month, and those titles are barely represented in the numbers you see here. They are brand new, still finding their footing in the algorithm, and the clicks have not fully started landing yet. When they do, that income shows up next month. The floor is rising before it even registers in the data.

A pricing experiment worth watching. This month I also started adjusting pricing to try to drive more sales volume. Ebooks that were priced at $9.95 are now $5.95–$6.95, and paperbacks that were $19.95 are now typically $12.95–$13.95. The bet is simple: a lower “trigger pull” price point that gets two sales will often out-earn a single higher-priced sale, especially while the catalog is still building an audience.

These changes only just went into effect, so I don’t expect to see their full impact until July’s numbers come in. I’ll report back on whether the theory holds.

The tool that makes this pace possible is eBook Writer AI. I have talked about building sustainably throughout these reports, and that is only possible because my process is dialed in. I research, then AI handles the heavy lifting on creation, so I can edit and add context, then publish consistently without it eating my evenings alive.

Why the first six months are supposed to be messy

From everything I’ve read and experienced firsthand, this kind of publishing business typically takes 8 to 12 months to really find its stride, with the goal of peaking in Q4 (October through December) when buyer demand is highest. The first six months are where you’re expected to take the most hits; testing categories, testing covers, testing price points, figuring out what the algorithm rewards and what it ignores. That’s exactly what these first six months have been: a lot of hit-or-miss, a lot of evaluation, and a lot of adjusting based on what the data actually says instead of what I hoped it would say.

Month seven is where that changes. I’m no longer just publishing and hoping; I’m publishing and adjusting, using six months of evaluation to make deliberate calls like this pricing shift. If the timeline holds, the next several months should be less about discovery and more about scaling toward a Q4 peak.

The result is that ebooks has now proven itself as a consistent, reliable income stream. This is not a fluke month or a lucky spike. It is a category that produces every single month, and it’s now compounding faster than it was even a month ago.

I want to return to something from last month’s report. I talked about one book a day being the right rhythm, and about a pipeline of new titles that hadn’t started earning yet. June is where that pipeline paid off. The rhythm held, the systems held, and the income moved up again… this time by more than it ever has.

Seven months in. The streak is intact.

The income is growing, and growing faster. The catalog is at 142 and climbing. There’s a fresh batch of 16 titles that have barely started earning, and a pricing experiment that hasn’t even had a full month to prove itself yet.

The compounding is real. And it is still just getting started.