Book Sales By Venue, Jan - April 2025

 

Interesting to tot up where my books have sold best in this first third of the year, which saw a particularly busy March for Comic Art Masterclasses and live events, with the other three months being a bit quieter. For this graph (where green bars are schools, and pink are comicons), I've missed out the schools where I sold less than £90 worth of books (which was about half a dozen, with a couple where I sold none at all).

And the best sellers chart looks like this:

1) Clotfin School in Bristol whose pupils bought a record-breaking 80 copies of Richard The Third.

2) Swansea Stars Of Time comicon in April, which accounted for more than half of my sales that month!

3) Bristol Creed comicon, March

4) Bruntsfield Primary, Edinburgh, January - the second school visit of January getting the year off to a very promising start

5=) Somerset UKCGF, Sheffield Creed, and Bournemouth Creed comicons. Only a few quid between them.

So, my school visits are a healthy market for books regularly, on top of me being paid to come and do classes in the first place of course, with some of them really being well organised when it comes to getting the parents to pay for books. And comicons vary in takings, but none has been a washout or lost me money yet so far this year. Next month I start doing signings in bookshops, as well as more of the above, so let us see what that leads to.

Here's how 2024 looked, comicons and book fairs only:

So last year 7 cons beat the £300 mark (one of them, Cardiff Showmasters, doing it for two consecutive days), but none crossed the £500 barrier, and the lowest takings of the year was at TBC in Bedford where I could only do the Sunday. This year so far 5 cons have topped £300, one just crossing the £500 line, only one dipping below the £200 mark. Not bad I think.

2024 average: £245

2025 average so far: £305

Graph generated here.

My Books And Where To Find Them...

Richard  The Third Paperback • signed	Findlay  Macbeth Paperback • signed	Prince of  Denmark Street Paperback • signed	Midsummer Night's  Dream Team Paperback • signed
Shakespeare Omnibus Paperback • signed	Comic Tales From The Bible Paperback • signed	Joseph, Ruth & Other Stories Paperback • signed	Space Elain Paperback • signed
Book Of Esther	Who Notes	Sweet Smell Of Sockcess	Attack Of The Sausages
My 1975 Diary Calendar	Colouring Books Paperback • signed	Scottish Falsetto Socks Annual	Tales Of Nambygate

Colouring Books: Doctors Who, Hollywood Legends, Punk, Cult TV, Eurovision Vol 1, Eurovision Vol 2, Eurovision Best Of British & Irish, 1960s Pop, 1970s Pop, 1980s Pop,  1990s Pop, 2020s Pop, Bowie, Scottish Pop, Royalty, Rom Coms