This was the month I began my experiment of caricaturing and signing outside bookshops. It wasn't a washout, but it wasn't the big sales opportunity I'd hoped. Here I am in Worcester.
Live events / classes et al - £1795.50 (inc 63 Richards, colour and b&w) = 180 books
Etsy - £27.60 (6 books)
Lulu (Amazon) - £11.93 (10 books)
Blurb - $6.84 (12 books = Eurovision x 10, My 1970s Diary x 2)
D2D - $2.04 (2 x Richards)
Live Sales May 2025 = 180 books
May 3 - Pontypridd Book Fair = 31 books
£306.45
5 x Richard colour
1 x Richard b&w
2 x Findlay Macbeth
4 x Prince of Denmark Street
5 x Midsummer Nights Dream Team
2 x Shakespeare Omnibus
2 x Joseph & Ruth colour
1 x Tales From Bible colour
1 x Esther colour
1 x Attack of Sausages colour
1 x Anime That Took Your Mum Away colour
6 x colouring books:
(3 Euro vol 2 sold out, 1 Dr Who sold out, 1 60s, 1 80s)
The big result from Pontypridd, apart from reminding me that book fairs are full of book buyers, with hardly any just paying for their caricature or leaving without it, is that people like colour books. The new colour editions of Joseph and Esther both sold, Richard in colour once again outsold the b&w edition, and for the first time I took the collections of kids comics with me (Attack and Anime) and both sold a copy. All these at £10.99 each
May 10 - Gloucester Creed comicon = 38 books
£455.75
7 x Richard colour
1 x Richard b&w
6 x FM
2 x PoDS
7 x MNDT
3 x Omnibus (sold out)
1 x Tales from Bible b&w
1 x Anime That… colour
1 x Poopy Doo Doo Heads (sold out)
8 x Colouring books:
2 x 2020s (sold out), 1 x Cult TV, Punk, Euro Vol 1, Euro vol 1 French, Hollywood, 90s
Very good volume of families and kids, very few members of the Can’t Afford 2 Quid Club (who leave their caricature), great uptake on higher volume items, ie colour editions and Omnibusses. Very satisfying. For first time I raised colouring books from £7.50 to £7.99 now all b&w books are the same price which makes life easier.
May 11 - Reading Creed comicon = 38 books
£374.70
7 x Richard colour
4 x Richard b&w
3 x FM
2 x PODS
2 x MNDT
1 x Space Elain
1 x Joseph colour
1 x Tales From Bible colour (sold out)
1 x Anime That… (sold out)
16 x Colouring books:
10 Dr Who (sold out), 4 Euro vol 2 (sold out), 1 Cult Tv (sold out), 1 Rom Com
The lesson here is that, at an event with Doctor Who guests (Colin Baker and Katy Manning, with lots of Who cosplay, and even Ellie from Who Culture, who I drew and chatted to) I could have sold more of that colouring book. Ditto the Eurovision book. A batch of both had arrived yesterday, so I had none in Gloucester, then they all sell out quickly in Reading.
May 17 - Book-ish, Abergavenny - 11 books
(£101.90*)
(*Give me a minute with the cash total. All books sold by bookshop, I then invoice for my share. They charge more than I do, I get less than usual)
(** Balance to me = £81.90)
3 x Richard col
1 x Richard b&w
1 x Findlay Macbeth
1 x Omnibus
4 x Space Elain
1 x Esther col
May 18 - Plymouth Creed = 29 books
£341.76
7 x Richard col
1 x Richard b&w
1 x FM
1 x PODS
7 x MNDT
1 x Omnibus
2 x Space Elain
1 x Joseph colour
3 x Kids comics
5 x Colouring books:
1 Punk (sold out), 1 Bowie (sold out), 1 80s (sold out), 1 70s, Scot Pop.
May 20 - Colmore Juniors
16 x Richard b&w @ £7 = £112
May 22 - Barton Stacey Primary
9 x Richard b&w @ £7 = £63
May 24 - Script Haven Worcester - 8 books
(£87.94*)
(* Balance to me = £59.94)
1 x Richard col
2 x MNDT (sold out)
1 x Omnibus
2 x Joseph col (sold out)
2 x Esther col
May Live Total = £1795.50
= 180 books
30 x Richard colour
33 x Richard b&w
13 x Findlay Macbeth
9 x Prince of Denmark Street
23 x Midsummer Nights Dream Team
8 x Shakespeare Omnibus
6 x Joseph & Ruth colour
2 x Tales From Bible colour
1 x Tales From Bible b&w
4 x Esther colour
7 x Space Elain
8 x comics by kids annuals
35 x Colouring books
May 2025 Etsy sales = £27.60 (6 orders)
1 x Euro Vol 1, Euro Vol 2, Punk paperbacks
+ 2 x Euro Vol 1 & 90s digital downloads
May 2025 Lulu sales = £11.93 (10 books)
3 x Hamlet PODS
2 x 60s
1 x FM, 70s, Euro Best Of, Doctors Who, Euro Spanish
May 2025 Blurb sales = anyone's guess (see above)
I think Blurb sales take a long time to register, and then they're unclear when the money has come through and what it was for. All those sales would appear to be for the Eurovision Colouring Book volume 1, only the Blurb edition of which is available on Amazon.
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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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