What to Do With My Old Articles?

I miss that revenue share I got every month from my old articles. It wasn't a lot, usually somewhere between $30 and $50 monthly. But it was money I could count on rolling in once a month, every month.

I didn't sell my article library when the website offered me a pittance for them. I turned down the offer, so they all still belong to me.

So, I have a number of recipes. I'm starting with those while I try to figure out the best revenue share website for the non-cooking articles.

I'm doing an ebook. Honestly, it's a work in progress right now, I'm formatting the recipes I've already dropped into the document and making a list of my other recipes that I'd like to include. Fortunately, I've already written up a lot of my recipes, so it's more a matter of finding the file, dropping it in, and formatting so they're consistent.

AND organizing, indexing, designing a cover and getting it all uploaded to Kindle, Barnes and Noble and smashbooks.

(This might be a series of ebooks, my mom's been wanting to do a cookbook for years so once I have this one completed, hers may be next in the series. She is an AMAZING cook!)



I'll post the link as soon as I'm finished, hopefully within the month.

An Interesting Turn of Events

Well, my main writing site is phasing out revenue share articles. The old program, where I make a few bucks every month is going away.

Yes, they've offered me a buy-out equivalent to 5 to 6 months of earnings. No, I'm not taking it.

Why? Well, I make most of my revenue share money off a few articles, but they've all made a little over time. Mainly I don't want to give up my half dozen top earners. So I'm going to publish them all elsewhere, one by one. Maybe they'll all end up here. Maybe at the competition's websites. Don't know yet, it's way too soon to tell.

There are a couple of other issues too, including the fact that I'd be selling all rights to my entire library of articles posted on that website, and I'm just not comfortable with that. I also don't want to take down articles from the few other places I've published them.

So, there it is, I'm not selling my rev share articles. I'll rework and republish elsewhere. (And yes, I have a copy of every single one saved to my computer. I did that a while back when there were rumors flying...)

In the meantime, I will continue writing flat-fee articles and be happy for the income and the opportunity.