Above: My table at Tetbury Goods Shed for a small but pleasant Tetbury Comic Con.
Live events / classes et al - £1952.69 (see below)
Etsy - £22.17
Lulu (Amazon) - £15.77
D2D - $8
Blurb - £2
D2D October sales - $8 (6 books)
A big drop from September's $70 from selling 45 Sweet Smell Of Sockcesses, all on pre-sale. This month that books sold 0 copies, as did Who Notes (which back in July sold 19 copies, in a month where everything sold at least one copy. What's happpened since then?)
4 x Richard The Third
2 x Midsummer Night's Dream Team
Lulu/Amazon October sales - £15.77 (13 books) (reported Oct 9th)
Remembering this was the second half of the month-long Facebook ad experiment, I only sold 2 quid more than the previous month, suggesting those ads really do nothing.
3 x Royalty
2 x 80s Superstars
2 x Christmas Movies
2 x MNDT
1 x Tales From The Bible
1 x Book of Esther
1 x 60s Pop
1 x 70s Pop
Etsy October sales - £22.17 - 3 sales (inc postage)
2 x Punk
1 x Richard The Third
LIVE SALES at events and classes
NB The sales at schools and art centres are on top of my Comic Art Masterclasses, for which I’ve already been paid. The caricatures are something I do at live events to attract people to my table.
October began quietly with two books sold after a Port Talbot class with only 3 pupils in, and 2 books bought by the library at Killarney Community College. So chalk up 4 Richard The Thirds there. Then the comic weekends begin...
Sat 12 Oct: Wrexham Comic Con - £353
26 x Caricature only - (on credit card alone, more on cash, not counted up)
8 x Richard The Third
8 x Colouring Books (2 xWho, 2 x Cult, Hollywood, Euro Vol 2, 60s, 90s)
3 x Space Elain
3 x Midsummer Night’s Dream Team
2 x Findlay Macbeth
1 x Prince Of Denmark Street
1 x Tales From Bible
1 x Who Notes
1 x Socks comic
Sun 13 Oct: Tetbury Comic Con - £188
14 x Caricature only (+ more cash)
10 x Richard The Third
5 x Space Elain
4 x Colouring Books (Who, Euro Vol 1, Scot Pop (sold out), Xmas Movies (sold out))
4 x MNDT
2 x Joseph & Ruth
1 x PODS
1 x FM
Mon 14 Oct: Cantref Primary Abergavenny - £105
15 x Richard The Third
Thurs 17 Oct: Allerton High, Leeds - £98
14 x Richard The Third
Sat 19 Oct: Cardiff Film & Comic Con - £395 (card and cash)
57 x Caricature only (+ more cash)
9 x Richard The Third
1 x Space Elain (sold out)
1 x Who Notes (sold out)
8 x Colouring Books (3 Who (sold out), 3 Cult TV, 1 Romcom (sold out), 1 60s)
2 x MNDT
1 x Joseph & Ruth
3 x PODS
2 x FM
7 x Socks Superheroes
1 x Dr Strange 86
Sun 20 Oct: Cardiff day two - £340 (card and cash)
45 x Caricature only (+ more cash)
9 x Richard The Third
3 x Colouring Books (80s, 70s, Hollywood)
2 x Beano annual 2008 (sold out)
1 x Shakespeare Omnibus
1 x Dr Strange 86
1 x Tales From Nambygate
3 x MNDT
3 x PODS
1 x FM (sold out)
1 x Nativity
Thurs 24 Oct: West Bridgford & Beeston libraries - £101
7 x Richard The Third
3 x Space Elain
2 x MNDT
2 x FM
1 x PODS
Mon 28 Oct: Putney class - £70.93
4 x Richard The Third
3 x Space Elain
1 x Tales From Bible
1 x MNDT
1 x Joseph
Tues 29 Oct: Letchworth class - £69.95
5 x Richard The Third
1 x PODS
1 x FM
1 x MNDT
1 x Esther (sold out)
1 x Space Elain
Weds 30 Oct: Swansea libraries - £87.90
9 x Richard The Third
3 x MNDT
1 x Space Elain
Thurs 31 Oct: Maidenhead library - £143.91
9 x Richard The Third
2 x FM
2 x PODS
3 x MNDT
1 x Space Elain
1 x Joseph
1 x Omnibus (sold out)
(I am tempted to include Friday at Arts Depot Finchley and Saturday at Clevedon Lit Fest, because they're part of the same consecutive run. But they're November, so you'll find them elsewhere.)
Total Live Book Sales For October : £1952.69
103 x Richard The Third
22 x MNDT
18 x Space Elain
15 x Colouring Books
12 x PODS
11 x FM
8 x Socks Superheroes
5 x Joseph
2 x Omnibus
2 x Tales From Bible
And if we check out my table of Live Book Sales for 2024 so far, we see..
772 Richards sold this year, that's pretty damn good. Adding in the 113 copies it had sold by the end of 2023, that's 885 copies sold. If we call it £4 profit per book, then Richard has earned me just over three and a half grand since I published it a year ago. Okay, I know that works out at a page rate of £27 a page, so it's not like working for The Beano, but I know authors who are earning less than that. (Though I know a lot who are earning a lot more, obviously!)
And 96 Midsummer Nights Dream Teams is an interesting figure. Two factors might be helping that: the change of logo on the front page to the "Saturday Night Fever" version, which makes it more eye catching, and the fact that when I describe it to my classes (with families watching) I mention it's the book without stabbing and blood and death, so maybe more kids and parents feel safe buying it? Or maybe they prefer that play? Meanwhile Prince of Denmark Street may sell slightly less cos it doesn't say "Hamlet" on the cover?
My Books and where to get them:
Richard The Third - Amazon - Etsy - Barnes & Noble - Waterstones
Findlay Macbeth - Amazon - Etsy
Prince Of Denmark Street - Amazon - Etsy - Kindle
Midsummer Nights Dream Team - Amazon - Etsy
Prince Of Denmark Street - Amazon - Etsy - Kindle
Midsummer Nights Dream Team - Amazon - Etsy
Shakespeare Omnibus Collection (all 3 books) - Paperback
Space Elain - Amazon - Lulu - iBooks - Barnes & Noble
Joseph, Ruth & Other Stories - Amazon
Captain Clevedon - Amazon
Tales Of Nambygate - Amazon
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