Sunday, 4 January 2026

Updated colouring books and belated stats

In the early days of the year, before work has started properly, I allow myself the indulgence of working on jobs that probably aren't 'real' work. And one of those jobs is fannying about with my colouring books. As you can see above and below, I added new pages to the 2020s Pop Star and the Cult TV colouring books, and ordered fresh copies of them, as well as topping up my stock of other books.

Which led me to counting up some figures I'd failed to do at the end of the year, namely the numbers of individual colouring books I'd sold. I'd clustered them together in the sales of the year, but as it happens I do keep a record of which individual titles sold how many. Would you like to see the chart?

Colouring Book Sales 2025


Doctors Who - 105 (sellouts - 10)

60s - 34 (so - 3)

Euro Vol2 - 29 (so - 7)

Cult TV - 27 (so - 7)

Bowie - 22 (so - 7)

80s - 22 (so - 7)

2020s - 21 (so - 4)

70s - 18 (so - 6)

Euro Vol1 - 15 (so - 3)

Punk - 14 (so - 6)

90s - 11 (so - 4)

80s Superstar - 10 (so - 4)

Christmas - 9 (so - 3)

Royalty - 6 (so - 1)

Hollywood - 5 (so -1)

RomCom - 5 (so - 2)

Best Of Euro - 4

ScotPop - 2 (so - 1)


A significant sidenote in all of those figures is the number of sellouts. That is times when I'm at a live event and I get to the end of my stock. By golly it happens a bit too often, doesn't it? An average of half a dozen times for the top ten books, and ten times for the Doctors Who books. Suggesting that, had I kept my stock topped up and always made sure I have at least two or three of every book with me, then I'm likely to sell more over time. I mean it might not turn out that way, and I fear I have been guilty of feeling satisfied when I go home with a lightened load, having exhausted my stock. But I'm sure there are many times that those sellouts would have become extra sales had I planned ahead better.



The oddity in the list is the 1960s colouring book, which seems to sell most of its copies via Lulu and Etsy, hence having fewer sellouts. Anyhooe, extra stock is being ordered now, as I line up the festivals for the year, and let us see if makes any difference as the year progresses.

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