Book Sales March - live and online

Above: Me enjoying a record breaking day at Liverpool Book Festival at Box Park.

Live events / classes et al - 181 books (£2153.41)

D2D -  49 books ($65.04)

Etsy - 4 books (£32.96)

Lulu - 7 books (£6.11)

Blurb - 1 book (61p)

Podcast downloads (new feature) - 96

Blog views (another new feature) - 300,000

Live Sales March 2026 = 181 books (£2153.41)

Mar 2 - Exhall Grange (additional) - 9 books (£126)

9 x Romeo col

Mar 3 - Leigh Academy - 23 books (£139.80)

23 x Space Elain bw @ £6.99

(Forgot it was a sci fi themed day and I'd offered them Space Elains at a special price, so had to order them afterwards. I don't usually offer that book to schools, or usually sell black & white editions).

Mar 4 - Staines Library - 2 books (£26)

1 x Romeo col

1 x Richard col

Mar 5 - Oak Bank - 5 books (£62)

2 x Romeo  col

1 x Richard 3rd col

1 x Tales from the Bible col

1 x Space Elain col

Mar 6 - Millfield - 21 books (£221.96)

5 x Romeo col

1 x Romeo bw

3 x Richard col

2 x Richard bw

2 x FM

1 x PODS

3 x MNDT

1 x Space Elain col

3 x Kids comics (2 Sausages, 1 Humpty)

Mar 8 - Liverpool Book Fest - 53 books (£555.74)

14 x Romeo col

1 x Romeo bw

3 x Richard col

4 x FM

2 x PODS

5 x MNDT

4 x Omnibus (sold out)

2 x Space Elain col

1 x Joseph col

1 x Esther col

16 x Colouring books:

- 3 x Euro vol 2

- 2 x Doctors, Royalty (sold out)

- 1 x Cult, Bowie, Euro vol 1, 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, 20s, Rom Com

Mar 13 - Mary Hare - 13 books (£172)

11 x Romeo col

2 x Romeo bw 

Mar 17 - St Botolphs Day 1 - 5 books (£68)

4 x Romeo col

1 x Richard col

Mar 18 - day 2 - 3 books (£30)

1 x Romeo col

1 x Romeo bw

1 x PODS

Mar 24 - Long Sutton - 12 books (£159)

9 x Romeo col

1 x Romeo bw

2 x Richard col

Mar 25 - Vernham Dean - 11 books (£144)

8 x Romeo col

2 x Richard col

1 x Richard bw

(This was an interesting school to contrast with last week. Last week I had a school where I taught 120 kids over 2 days and they only bought 8 books between them. This school bought 11 books - and I only taught 14 pupils. Cos they only have 14 pupils! That's the sort of per capita rate I like to see.)

Mar 28 - Library of Birmingham - 3 books (£37)

1 x Romeo col, Richard col, Space Elain col

(More disappointing sales there. I’m teaching 19 kids with their parents watching, they’ve got free tickets, I’m genuinely expecting every parent to buy books, and only two parents do. Sometimes you never can tell). 

Mar 30 - Script Haven Worcester - 10 books (£78, after bookshop share)

3 x Romeo col

3 x Richard col

3 x MNDT

1 x Space Elain col

(I try the "standing outside the shop with my books on a table" schtick that I experimented with last summer. It works as well as it did then, which isn't bad, but the share that goes through the shop till lowers the profit margin. I was there from 11.30 to 2pm, so a little better than minimum wage).

Mar 31 - Yvonne Arnaud Guildford-

Am: 11 books (£131.95)

Pm: 8 books (£99.96)

6 x Romeo col

3 x Richard col

1 x FM

1 x PODS

1 x Omnibus

4 x Space Elain col 

4 x Kids comics

Lives Sales Total March 26 - 181 books (£2153.41)

73 x Romeo col

6 x Romeo bw

20 x Richard col

3 x Richard bw

7 x FM

4 x PODS

12 x MNDT

5 x Omnibus 

23 x Space Elain bw 

10 x Space Elain col

1 x Joseph col

1 x Esther col

7 x Kids comics

16 x Colouring books:

- 3 x Euro vol 2

- 2 x Doctors, Royalty (sold out)

- 1 x Cult, Bowie, Euro vol 1, 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, 20s, Rom Com

D2D Sales: Happiness was clicking on my D2D sales (on Weds March 11th) to find that, overnight, I'd sold 15 copies of my most expensive book, the Shakespeare Omnibus, netting me over 40 dollars in royalties. I think that's more than I've made in any previous month on D2D. Not JK Rowling money, but an interesting and pleasant blip.

D2D Sales March 2026 - 49 books ($65.04)

(Some sales are promo freebies, but the Romeos and Omnibusses are real sales) 

15 x Shakespeare Omnibus

9 x Romeo bw

4 x Tales from Bible

4 x FM

4 x Richard bw

3 x MNDT

2 x Joseph, Esther, PODS

1 x Elain, Punk

Etsy sales March 2026  - 4 books (£32.96)

2 x Doctors

1 x Hollywood, Euro vol 2 

Buzzsprout podcast downloads - 96 (new feature)

(Having uploaded a 6 episode series over the last 12 weeks, they’re getting fewer listeners than the first series. New episodes, total listeners to date:)

Dillon 103

Agnew and Benn 49

Louisa and Paulus 48

Milway and Jackson 35

Quigley and Savage 35 

Belcher and Moore 34

Collins and Cook 29

Lulu sales March 2026 - 7 books (£6.11)

2 x Richard col

1 x Tales from Bible

2 x Atrack of Sausages

1 x FM

1 x Esther col

Blurb Sales March 2026 - 1 book, 61p

Blog views (another new feature) - 300,000

I only include this item because, in the last month, views of my blog went through the roof. They went from a usual rate of 2000 views a day to 20,000 views a day, which is ridiculous. This led to me reactivating the Adsense ads on my blog. Suffice it to say, all those views do not turn into big money. Those ads, which disfigure my blog and make parts of it hard to read, are earning 2 or 3 pence per day. If that keeps up, then after twelve months I could have earned a mahoosive £11. Is it worth it? I'll leave the ads running for a while and see how things develop.

My Books And Where To Find Them...

Romeo & Juliet (Colour)	Romeo & Juliet (bw)	Richard The Third (Colour)	Richard  The Third (bw)
Shakespeare Omnibus	Findlay  Macbeth	Prince of  Denmark Street	Midsummer Night's  Dream Team
Tales From Bible (Col)	Tales From Bible (bw)	Joseph, Ruth & Other Stories	Space Elain
Book Of Esther	Who Notes	Doctors Who? Colouring	Sweet Smell Of Sockcess
Kids Comics Annual 2026	Kids Comics Annual 2025	Socks Do Shakespeare	Colouring Books

Colouring Books: Doctors Who, Hollywood Legends, Punk, Cult TV, Eurovision Vol 1, Eurovision Vol 2, Eurovision Best Of British & Irish, 1960s Pop, 1970s Pop, 1980s Pop,  1990s Pop, 2020s Pop, Bowie, Scottish Pop, Royalty, Rom Coms