Here's me looking good on the screen outside Strule Arts in Omagh, during my 6 day run at arts centres in Northern Ireland this August. This, and my other summer art classes, were by far the best way I found of selling comics this month, probably even this year. There were parents in the back of the classes watching. Something which, previously, I've found a bit of a distraction. Now, armed with books and a point of sale display, they are punters.
Notwithstanding the fact that I could only take a limited number of books to NI and had sold out by halfway through the week, lets have a look at what a part they played in August's book sales. (Through iZettle, cash sales were occasional but few).
2 Aug, Beverley Library - £47.92
3 Aug, Cockerton Library - £124.85
4 Aug, Cresset Theatre, Peterborough - £32.97
7 Aug, Ards Arts, Newtonards - £56.98
8 Aug, Strule Arts, Omagh - £62.92
9 Aug, Ardhowen, Enniskillen - £11.98 (running out of stock by now)
10 Aug, MAC Belfast - £11.98 (stock very nearly gone)
11 Aug, Roe Valley, Limavady - £5.99 (final book sold)
(for 12 Aug in Larne, and for the previous few days, I've been encouraging parents to scan the QR code and go to the website for the books. Whether anyone did we shall see below from Lulu sales).
21 Aug, Clifton & Dales libraries, Notts - £83.96
22 Aug, Wollaton library, Notts - £125.94
Total book sales after classes in August = £565.49
July's book sales at live events (excluding original art sold at LFCC) came to £460.
June's total was £304.50.
Which books sell best? See the itemised list and breakdown of 2023 here.
Etsy sales have been low in August. £13.98. My lowest sales since Feb 2022.
(July £48.93, June £55.92, May £58.05, Apr £171.05, Mar £80.86, Feb £44.50, Jan £82.86)
Lulu/Amazon sales - £33.34 (not revealed till Sept 16th)
Aug £27.60, July £29.94, June £48.33, May £52.26, April £8.56, March £38.57, Feb £35.25, & Jan £26.84
MNDT - 2 (US - one registers £0) 4 (UK - two register £0) *
Dr Who Col - 1 (CA) 4 (UK)
Tales From Bible - 1 (US) 4 (UK)
Shakespeare Omnibus - 1 (US) 2 (UK)
80s Superstars Colouring - 2 (US) 1 (UK)
Eurovision Best Of - 3 (UK)
Eurovision Vol 2 - 2 (UK)
60s Pop - 2 (US)
PODS - 1 (US) 1 (UK)
Captain Clevedon - 1 (UK)
Bowie Col - 1 (UK)
Tales Of Nambygate - 1 (UK)
* I have noticed, and tweeted about, my books appearing at far-too-low prices on Amazon. MNDT appeared for £4.30 rather than the usual advertised £10, so I assume these are the copies that generate me no income.
Blurb sales - £0
(July £1.17, June £0, May £0.74, Apr £9.12, Mar £3.13, Feb £3.21, Jan 12p)
D2D sales - $4.23
(July $7.39, June $6.03, May $1.86, April $1.52, March $2.46, Feb $0, Jan $4.10)
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