Help, a wrinkly old man with a very odd bulge in his trouser pocket is drawing pictures of children in a giant cow shed in Exeter.
March sales:
Live events / classes et al - £3279.91 (inc 293 Richards)
Etsy - £9.39 (1 book, 2 digital downloads)
Lulu (Amazon) - £x (reported tbc)
Blurb - $8 tbc (13 books apparently)
D2D - $4.61 (15 books, most free)
Live Book Sales March 2025 - schools and events
Mon 3 March - Havelock, Northants (day 4) = £266
38 x Richards
Tues 4 March - Forest E17 - no sales
Weds 5 March - Minet, Hayes = £154
22 x Richards
+ additional 40 books ordered afterwards = £280
Thurs 6 March - Oak Bank Leighton Buzzard = £14
2 x Richards (a special school, not book-selling territory)
Fri 7 March - school in Bristol = £560
80 x Richards
(Biggest school sale ever I think)
Sat 8 March - UKCGF Exeter = £280 *
8 x Richard
6 x Space Elain
1 x FM, PODS, MNDT
1 x Omnibus (sold out)
5 x Colouring Books
(1 Dr Who sold out, 1 Cult TV sold out, 1 Bowie, 70s, 90s sold out)
+ lots of caricatures @£2 each
Sun 9 March - Creed Cons Bristol = £421*
18 x Richard
3 x Space Elain (sold out)
2 x FM
3 x PODS
6 x MNDT
1 x Tales From Bible (sold out)
1 x Esther
10 x Colouring Books
(2 xPunk sold out, 2 x Euro Vol 2 sold out, 1 x Bowie sold out, 1 x 70s sold out, 1 x 80s sold out, 1 x 80s Superstars sold out, 2 x Euro Vol 1)
+ lots of caricatures @£2 each
That’s six titles sold out in a day, and eleven in a weekend. I make a note to order more copies. Do I order enough? See Sheffield and Bournemouth below.
Tues 11 March - Fleetwood Primary = £56
8 x Richards
Weds 12 March - Underley Carnforth = £105
15 x Richards
Fri 21 March - Ashton Keynes = £133
19 x Richards
Sat 22 March - Creed Cons Sheffield = £380*
8 x Richards
3 x FM
5 x PODS
3 x MNDT
2 x Joseph
3 x Elain
15 x Colouring Books:
(5 Dr Who sold out, 2 Punk sold out; 1 Euro Vol 2, 80s, 90s, all sold out, 2 Euro Vol 1, 1 Bowie, 20s)
That’s five different titles sold out in one day. But wait for it…
Sun 23 March - Creed Cons Bournemouth = £383*
11 x Richards
5 x FM (sold out)
3 x PODS
3 x MNDT (sold out)
4 x Elain (sold out)
7 x Colouring Books:
(1 Bowie, Euro Vol 1, 70s, 80s Super, Xmas, all sold out, 1 60s, 20s)
That makes a record breaking eight books sold out in one day, and thirteen sold out in a weekend. This is not a good thing! If I’d had more stock of all those books, especially my Shakespeare titles, and the Dr Who and Eurovision books, I would have sold more of them without question. I also failed to bring original art with me, which would I think have found a buyer in Bournemouth. You live and learn.
Tues 25 March - Beer Primary Devon = £126
18 x Richard
Sat 29 March - Chorley Town Hall = £71.91
6 x Richards
1x FM, PODS, MNDT
Total = £3279.91
293 x Richard The Thirds
12 x Findlay Macbeth
13 x Prince Of Denmark Street
14 x Midsummer Night's Dream Team
16 x Space Elain
37 x Colouring Books
* cards and cash
D2D Sales March 2025 = $4.61
Above you see the Royalties chart from D2D. That's the one that counts, showing you that, of the 15 books "sold" this month, only 3 of them were paid for. So I get Royalties of a few pennies for Book Of Esther, Joseph & Ruth, and Richard The Third. And have had free copies downloaded (as part of a promotion through Smashwords) of all my other books (one of two of each).
Blurb Sales March 2025 = dunno, but it looks like 13 books, possibly around $8
Blurb's reassuringly vague website (above) tells me 13 books were sold on March 3rd, and none for the rest of the month, without a hint of what they may have been or how much money I get for them. At a guess it's:
11 x Eurovision Vol 1
2 x My 1970s Diary
... but don't hold me to that.
My table at Bournemouth when I’d sold out of two Shakespeare books and most of my colouring book titles, but there was still juice in the iPad on my display.
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Richard The Third | Findlay Macbeth | Prince of Denmark Street | Midsummer Night's Dream Team |
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Shakespeare Omnibus | Comic Tales From The Bible | Joseph, Ruth & Other Stories | Space Elain |
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