Sam Fennah / FailSafe42 - Atheist furry who dropped out of college; sperged to Bionicle fans about God not existing #SAVEBOB

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They won't both ever stop, will they. Just a perfect match, aren't they, both love porn and necrophilia.

I'm honestly not even sure what's going on in this picture, it's like my brain can't fully process it. Who are these characters? Is the moth-thing's head totally off? I really can't tell.

 

[SquidQuid]

I'm honestly not even sure what's going on in this picture, it's like my brain can't fully process it. Who are these characters? Is the moth-thing's head totally off? I really can't tell.

I think the moth is Carmen's and the beast Kiv is a community OC

 

[Draaq]

If I'm remembering correctly, the book's story is mostly gonna be centered around how these characters handle politics in their world. Why politics? He could have went anywhere else with the story and he choose politics. Something something their society only cares about the best of the best and anyone who is weak gets the short end of the stick. So basically the story that Fennah is going for is questioning the laws of a broken backwards society, which would be interesting if all the characters weren't written as super strong and smart and perfect beings. In the reboot, Hyzen plays a big part in the story because I guess she's one of the few Kivs who aren't that strong and Fennah said that she has weak lungs which... ok sure why not lol. I hate how he literally develops none of his characters outside of Lucy, I know very little about any of the other characters and so it's hard for me to care about them at all.

Well there go my hopes. If it is, I the duck don’t know how he is going to make it interesting for 700 pages and 5-6 books.
I hope the animatics aren’t just a lure with the best pages to buy the book - which will turn out to be something completely different. In this case the smartass’ career will fall straight down, his First Night series might get him views but he’ll be called out everywhere on how shit he is.

Also, why not focus and finish the book, then you’ll sell it an have money for your rent huh?
Let’s say optimistically the book costs now 9,99£, 12£ with shipping in Europe or something.
He self publishes, so the making of one book with the cheapest paper and paper cover should cost around 6£, as he will order it in massive bulk.
He sells it now for 9,99, so 10£, not including shipping.
That’s 4£ profit, whether paper or e-book.
Now from the 170k who watched the first animatic or the other ones, 50k are so impressed they want to buy it, including those who didn’t watch any animatic to get surprised more, those who just stumbled upon and haters who want to shit on it instantly.
50.000 x 4 = 200.000£
thats hella lot and you have paid rent for some few years, even if the rent is 2.500£.

The book is good? Much more people will buy it, around 70k then, super optimistic if masterpiece it can even get to 100-200k if other people review it and the internet storms it. Now dude every other book you publish will get you similar amount of money, plus a smart move is making the other books then 2£ more expensive (the first is then more of a teaser book, and if people like/love it they’ll want more and will be ready to pay additional 2 pounds or so.)
The book is bad? Well dude your product just flopped and 50.000£ maximum is all you’ll ever get from it, as people will instantly tell around “oh god it’s so awful” and others will cancel their pre/order whatsoever, counting then the 4.000£ for every other book you publish. Now you can start commissions to save your poor ass and make up for the lost money on production.

 

[AngryTreeRat]

Well there go my hopes. If it is, I the duck don’t know how he is going to make it interesting for 700 pages and 5-6 books.
I hope the animatics aren’t just a lure with the best pages to buy the book - which will turn out to be something completely different. In this case the smartass’ career will fall straight down, his First Night series might get him views but he’ll be called out everywhere on how shit he is.

Also, why not focus and finish the book, then you’ll sell it an have money for your rent huh?
Let’s say optimistically the book costs now 9,99£, 12£ with shipping in Europe or something.
He self publishes, so the making of one book with the cheapest paper and paper cover should cost around 6£, as he will order it in massive bulk.
He sells it now for 9,99, so 10£, not including shipping.
That’s 4£ profit, whether paper or e-book.
Now from the 170k who watched the first animatic or the other ones, 50k are so impressed they want to buy it, including those who didn’t watch any animatic to get surprised more, those who just stumbled upon and haters who want to shit on it instantly.
50.000 x 4 = 200.000£
thats hella lot and you have paid rent for some few years, even if the rent is 2.500£.

The book is good? Much more people will buy it, around 70k then, super optimistic if masterpiece it can even get to 100-200k if other people review it and the internet storms it. Now dude every other book you publish will get you similar amount of money, plus a smart move is making the other books then 2£ more expensive (the first is then more of a teaser book, and if people like/love it they’ll want more and will be ready to pay additional 2 pounds or so.)
The book is bad? Well dude your product just flopped and 50.000£ maximum is all you’ll ever get from it, as people will instantly tell around “oh god it’s so awful” and others will cancel their pre/order whatsoever, counting then the 4.000£ for every other book you publish. Now you can start commissions to save your poor ass and make up for the lost money on production.

Turn over for such marketing is traditionally only about 10% traditionally. So we're talking 17k sales, if we account for all the assholes like me who intend to shit on it as soon as I can afford to get around to it and randoms who we don't have numbers on, we're talking about 20k to 25k sales unless it is a breakout hit, and unless I see some demographic data that says otherwise, I am assuming Fennah is going to have a low rate of sales due to the fact he's advertising this book as 18+, which limits sales among adults, and he has an audience that is predominately minors who lack the disposable income of their own to buy the book. Let's be generous and give him 25k in sales for this.

Currently a book such as his, without over pricing himself so much to put people off buying it, goes for about $9 USD (which is a more commonly used international currency, we'll convert to GBP at the end for him). He can push that up to $12 USD and still not piss too many people off and make decent sales. If I kick my chair over to my book shelf of stuff that hasn't been banished to a shelf in the basement because I won't read it again this decade and grab four random books of the 600-800 page range that are soft cover and released in 2020 or 2021 we get $8, $11, $14, $12. Of those the $14 was eleven books into a franchise, and that lets it charge more. Selling to your own niche however does let you put price around 30%, so we are into $11.99 territory. With some rounding up that is easily fudged to get £8.99. In Canada, my local market, that would likely get fudged to $14.99.

Assuming that he pulls off sales at a price of around $11.99 USD, or £8.49 GBP to low ball it, he'd be at around £212,250 in pure revenue, that looks pretty good right? Taking a look into the reality of publishing his book on shit paper, he's likely going to be spending closer to $8 USD on material, as, and here is a surprise many of you wouldn't know, getting that shit printed without the backing of a proper publisher is actually more expensive since they got deals in place to reduce the costs further than any bulk order of a self published author could imagine. So we're looking at around £5.76 in manufacturing per unit. Then there are all the various fees involved with selling it over seas, since Fennah doesn't exactly have a purely domestic audience, plus the expenses of getting it into traditional bookstores if he plans to try and reach anything that resembles a larger market, their pretty standard 15%, and we're at around $1.69 USD in his pocket per book. Or around £1.22 GBP, which leaves his profits at... £30,500. Yeah, welcome to why authors are fucking broke. Here's a fun thing, from some research, traditionally published books also tend to bring in about 20-30% more over all to their authors than self published, despite the lower return per sale. So Fennah is still an idiot for self publishing.

It is also worth noting, if you aren't a fucking retard, you'd also need to consider that when it comes to writing, 8 hours of work one day do not produce the same amount of progress towards a finished book as 8 hours of work the next day. Writers block, mental fatigue, shit just reading funky and requiring repeated revisions and edits, and unexpected difficulties moving from one chunk of story to the next without it seeming completely confused can make progress run quite slow, on the other hand you might have it all flow smoothly and somehow get more progress done in a day than a month. This is a big part of why book release times, even among far more professional authors, are a fucking shit show at times unless the author is very used to writing a certain style of book.

Now, he really should start dedicating far more time to the writing of his book, as these animations are a waste of his time, but he also, quite frankly, announced this book far too early. Commissions are also what are going to pay for all the up front costs of publishing the book, since that is quite expensive. If Fennah has two braincells he should also be releasing it as both an e-book and an audio book (at a few bucks more), which he self recorded and didn't pay any of his voice actors to read, to help bring in more sales at a far higher profit margin. If we account for those expenses, he's likely looking at about £6 in his pocket per sale if he predominately sells through digital and audiobook with a minimal number of sales as physical copies, which gets up to a total profit of £150,000. Now this is far better, and this is the only reason modern authors make money. Digital sales ran up to the price of physical sales. Having digital sales does also mean he can treat the physical release as something more premium and sell it at a comparable profit margin to his digital sales, letting him hit a new profit margin of £7.22 per sale, we'll round that down to £7 to account for any fuzziness in manufacturing and so on, and say he's now at £175,000 of profit from all of this.

And this is all assuming we are stupidly generous to Fennah and assume his installed fan base goes insane. Let's be more reasonable.

The most recent Animatic for Celia is only at 28k views after 9 days. This converts to an estimated 2.8k sales, accounting for assholes and so on we can hit 3k sales, at our most generous profit margin we can give him £7 per sale in the pocket for... £21,000 total.

 

[Draaq]

Turn over for such marketing is traditionally only about 10% traditionally. So we're talking 17k sales, if we account for all the assholes like me who intend to shit on it as soon as I can afford to get around to it and randoms who we don't have numbers on, we're talking about 20k to 25k sales unless it is a breakout hit, and unless I see some demographic data that says otherwise, I am assuming Fennah is going to have a low rate of sales due to the fact he's advertising this book as 18+, which limits sales among adults, and he has an audience that is predominately minors who lack the disposable income of their own to buy the book. Let's be generous and give him 25k in sales for this.

Currently a book such as his, without over pricing himself so much to put people off buying it, goes for about $9 USD (which is a more commonly used international currency, we'll convert to GBP at the end for him). He can push that up to $12 USD and still not piss too many people off and make decent sales. If I kick my chair over to my book shelf of stuff that hasn't been banished to a shelf in the basement because I won't read it again this decade and grab four random books of the 600-800 page range that are soft cover and released in 2020 or 2021 we get $8, $11, $14, $12. Of those the $14 was eleven books into a franchise, and that lets it charge more. Selling to your own niche however does let you put price around 30%, so we are into $11.99 territory. With some rounding up that is easily fudged to get £8.99. In Canada, my local market, that would likely get fudged to $14.99.

Assuming that he pulls off sales at a price of around $11.99 USD, or £8.49 GBP to low ball it, he'd be at around £212,250 in pure revenue, that looks pretty good right? Taking a look into the reality of publishing his book on shit paper, he's likely going to be spending closer to $8 USD on material, as, and here is a surprise many of you wouldn't know, getting that shit printed without the backing of a proper publisher is actually more expensive since they got deals in place to reduce the costs further than any bulk order of a self published author could imagine. So we're looking at around £5.76 in manufacturing per unit. Then there are all the various fees involved with selling it over seas, since Fennah doesn't exactly have a purely domestic audience, plus the expenses of getting it into traditional bookstores if he plans to try and reach anything that resembles a larger market, their pretty standard 15%, and we're at around $1.69 USD in his pocket per book. Or around £1.22 GBP, which leaves his profits at... £30,500. Yeah, welcome to why authors are fucking broke. Here's a fun thing, from some research, traditionally published books also tend to bring in about 20-30% more over all to their authors than self published, despite the lower return per sale. So Fennah is still an idiot for self publishing.

It is also worth noting, if you aren't a fucking retard, you'd also need to consider that when it comes to writing, 8 hours of work one day do not produce the same amount of progress towards a finished book as 8 hours of work the next day. Writers block, mental fatigue, shit just reading funky and requiring repeated revisions and edits, and unexpected difficulties moving from one chunk of story to the next without it seeming completely confused can make progress run quite slow, on the other hand you might have it all flow smoothly and somehow get more progress done in a day than a month. This is a big part of why book release times, even among far more professional authors, are a fucking shit show at times unless the author is very used to writing a certain style of book.

Now, he really should start dedicating far more time to the writing of his book, as these animations are a waste of his time, but he also, quite frankly, announced this book far too early. Commissions are also what are going to pay for all the up front costs of publishing the book, since that is quite expensive. If Fennah has two braincells he should also be releasing it as both an e-book and an audio book (at a few bucks more), which he self recorded and didn't pay any of his voice actors to read, to help bring in more sales at a far higher profit margin. If we account for those expenses, he's likely looking at about £6 in his pocket per sale if he predominately sells through digital and audiobook with a minimal number of sales as physical copies, which gets up to a total profit of £150,000. Now this is far better, and this is the only reason modern authors make money. Digital sales ran up to the price of physical sales. Having digital sales does also mean he can treat the physical release as something more premium and sell it at a comparable profit margin to his digital sales, letting him hit a new profit margin of £7.22 per sale, we'll round that down to £7 to account for any fuzziness in manufacturing and so on, and say he's now at £175,000 of profit from all of this.

And this is all assuming we are stupidly generous to Fennah and assume his installed fan base goes insane. Let's be more reasonable.

The most recent Animatic for Celia is only at 28k views after 9 days. This converts to an estimated 2.8k sales, accounting for assholes and so on we can hit 3k sales, at our most generous profit margin we can give him £7 per sale in the pocket for... £21,000 total.

I always forget that his book is +18, as age restrictions on books don't matter to me at all, as what you picture in your head through the words is nowhere near what you would see in a +18 movie or comic (taking Felidae for example or Watership Down which both are amazing as book and movie). Guess I'm just so used to his sexual fetish crap that I don't even notice it anymore.

I think most sales will get his animatic, which I guess he will put up per chapter on YouTube as premium paid content maybe. It's likely to reach most audience.
Remove the pictures from the animatic and you have an Audiobook, but I don't know if he will sell that seperately for a cheaper price, but maybe as it is a smart marketing move too.
I just hope he doesn't overprice the book to 30$ or something, as self-publishing is very expensive... But that would hurt his sales massively so I think not.