Book sales August, live and online (Lulu sales dry up)

My display at Leicester Central Library. All proper books, none of your colouring nonsense.

Live events / classes et al - £832.24 = 84 books

Etsy - £31.23 (4 books)

D2D - $8.19 (5 books )

Lulu (Amazon) - £tbc (x books)

Blurb - $0 (0 books)

Live Sales August 2025 = x books (£x)

Saturday August 2nd - Leicester Central Library - 9 books (£92.91)

3 x Richard col

2 x Attack of the Sausages (sold out)

1 x MNDT

1 x Joseph col

1 x Esther col 

1 x Space Elain bw is

Weds Aug 6th - Camden Libraries - 7 books (£73.93)

4 x Richard col

1 x Joseph col

1 x Esther col

1 x MNDT

Tues Aug 12th - Bow libraries - 1 x FM (£7.99)

Sun Aug 17th - Barnowl Books Malmesbury - 13 books (share = £99.88)

6 x Richard col

1 x FM

4 x MNDT

1 x Omnibus

1 x Esther col

Mon Aug 18th - Salford Libraries - 12 books (£127.89)

4 x Richard col

3 x Space Elain col

1 x Omnibus

1 x FM

2 x PODS

1 x MNDT (sold out)

Weds Aug 27th - Ropetackle Shoreham- 9 books (£106.90)

7 x Richard col

2 x Space Elain col

1 x MNDT

Good lord. Could August turn out to be my lowest book sales of the year so far? Unless I sell 19 books in Taunton this coming weekend, that will indeed be the case. (Total at time of typing is 51 books, £509) This has not been helped by the classes I had pencilled in my diary that didn't happen: I had expected to be somewhere on Wednesday and Friday, but they'd not been confirmed and I'd failed to take the out of the diary. That and no comic cons makes August a quiet month for book sales. 

Sun Aug 31st - Taunton UKCGF con - 33 books (£322.74)

3 x Richard col

2 x Richard bw

5 x FM

4 x PODS

3 x MNDT

4 x Space Elain col

1 x Esther col

1 x Attack of the Sausages

10 x Colouring books:

(4 x Doctors Who, 4 x 2020s pop, 1 x Cult TV, 1 x 80s)

That’s more like it. My first time stood behind a table for a month and it turns out I’ve still got it. Constant flow of families with kids, the perfect audience for me. 

Live Sales August 2025 Total = (up to Shoreham) 84 books (£832.24)

27 x Richard col

2 x Richard bw

7 x FM

6 x PODS

11 x MNDT

2 x Omnibus

14 x Space Elain col

1 x Space Elain bw

4 x Esther col

1 x Joseph col

3 x Attack of Sausages

10 x Colouring Books

Aug = 84 books (£832.24)

July  = 190 books (£1718.86)

June = 146 books (£1213.21) 

May = 180 books (£1795.50)

April = 123 books (£984.62)

March = 355 books (£3279.91)

Feb = 127 books (£1049)

Jan = 70 books (£490)

2025 Live Sales running total (to Aug) = 1275 books (£11,360)

(2024 total books 1848, 2023 972)

Aug 2025 - Lulu Sales 0.

This was clearly the month Lulu sales finally dried up. I'm typing this on September 18th. By this stage in the month, Lulu sales via Amazon have been reported, and we've seen them shrinking over the past year as more and more of my books fail to get approved for Global Distribution. The above figure of 41p has been showing for over a month now. For the record:

From a high this year of £48.57 in January, the figures have dropped and dropped as more and more colouring books, which had been on Amazon, silently stopped being there. So now those books can only really be sold at live shows, or via the occasional Etsy sale. They don't have a major online window like they once had. In Dec 23 and Jan 24 they sold £109 worth each month. The decline has been going on since then. It was good while it lasted. The most frustrating thing is that my colour graphic novels can only reach Amazon via Lulu, cos D2D don't print colour. And Richard The Third, Space Elain, and Joseph have all been refused. Tales Of The Bible was up there in colour, but I'm afraid to look in case it's joined the rest of them. Sigh.

Aug 2025 D2D Sales - 5 books,  $8.19

3 x Socks Shakespeare

1 x Richard bw

1 x Space Elain bw

Aug 2025 Etsy Sales - 4 books,  £31.23 

1 x Cult TV, 80s, Doctors Who, Bowie

My Books And Where To Find Them...

Richard The Third (Colour) Paperback • signed	Doctors Who? Colouring Paperback • signed	Socks Do Shakespeare Paperback	Kids Comics Annual 2026 Paperback
Richard  The Third (bw) 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