Live events / classes et al - 185 books (£2111.54) (March 181, £2153.41)
D2D - 9 books ($10.11) (March 54, $74.79)
Etsy - 2 books (£8.98) (March 4, £32.96)
Lulu - x books (£x) (March 7, £6.11)
Blurb - 0 books, £0 (March 1, 61p)
Podcast downloads - 164 (March 96)
Blog views - 340,000 (March 300,000)
Live Sales April 2026 = 185 books (£2111.54)
April 4 - Llangollen Day 1 - 25 books (£308.87)
6 x Romeo col
2 x Richard col
1 x PODS
3 x MNDT
1 x Omnibus
1 x Esther col
11 x Colouring books:
- 6 x Cult TV
- 2 x Doctors, 2020s
- 1 x 80s
April 5 - Llangollen Day 2 - 21 books (£203.83)
4 x Romeo col
1 x Richard col
1 x FM, PODS, MNDT
2 x Space Elain col
2 x Joseph col
1 x Tales from Bible col
8 x Colouring books:
- 2 x Doctors, Cult TV (sold out), 80s, Christmas (sold out)
(This weekend at Llangollen, with its many hours of driving and more hours stood in a freezing shed led to me posting on Facebook asking what we all expect from cons. It elicited this marvellous response from Gordon Rennie:
"I HATE the modern comic con model. Everyone sitting in rows behind their wee tables, selling their array of tat, to fans who become just customers.
If I’d wanted a career in retail, I wouldn’t have given up that job in Waterstones 36 years ago.
Spending your weekends doing this in an assortment of provincial sports halls and community venues masquerading as ‘comic cons’ just looks like long, slow, lingering death of the creative spirit."
His words, not mine.)
April 7 - Watersmeet Rickmansworth - 11 books (£145.98)
6 x Romeo col
1 x Romeo bw
1 x Richard col
1 x Omnibus (sold out)
1 x Space Elain col
1 x Esther col
(I did three classes in a day, the morning class was full, 28 kids and I only sold 2 books; the afternoon class slightly less full, 26 kids, and I sold 7 books; the evening class only had 4 punters in it, only 3 of them kids, and I sold 2 books again. You can never predict who will be buyers, sometimes.)
April 9 - Edgware Library - 5 books (£39)
1 x Richard col
2 x PODS
1 x FM, MNDT
(2 full classes of kids, hardly a book sold. The classes were free, whereas when the classes are ticketed they attract ‘buying’ parents. Understandably. )
April 10 - Grantham Guildhall - 23 books (£220.94)
7 x Romeo col
1 x Romeo bw
1 x Richard col
2 x Richard bw
2 x FM
1 x PODS, MNDT
3 x Space Elain col
5 x Kids comics (2 Sausages, 2 Baked Beans, 1 Poopy Doo Doo Heads)
(Quite the most surprising run of book sales from two classes with only 15 kids in each. It helped that all the parents were watching throughout and really enjoyed the class. Happy parents buy merch, obviously)
April 11 - Cardiff Creed - 32 books (£372)
5 x Romeo col
1 x Romeo bw
1 x Richard col
4 x Richard bw
4 x FM
3 x PODS
3 x MNDT (sold out)
1 x Tales From Bible (sold out)
11 x Colouring books:
- 4 x Doctors Who
- 4 x 2020s pop
- 2 x 90s pop
- 1 x Punk
April 16 - Preston Muslim Girls - 8 books (£112)
8 x Romeo col
April 17 - Williamston Edinburgh advance order - 26 books (£349)
20 x Romeo col
1 x Romeo bw
5 x Richard col
April 18 - Baldock Arts - 9 books (£106.97)
4 x Romeo col
2 x Richard col
1 x PODS
1 x MNDT
1 x Elain col
April 19 - Cardiff UKCGF - 8 books (£63)
1 x Richard col
1x FM, MNDT
1 x Elain col (sold out)
1 x Elain bw
3 x Colouring books:
- 2 x Doctors, 1 x 2020s
(Blimey that was hard work. Easily the quietest con of the year. I did make a little more money drawing caricatures at two quid a pop, but not much)
April 23 - Rise Aylesbury - 5 books (£39.95)
2 x FM, MNDT
1 x PODS
April 24 - St Francis Glasgow advance order - 6 books (£78)
3 x Romeo col
3 x Richard col
April 30 - Williamston Edinburgh additional books - 6 books (£75)
3 x Romeo col
1 x Romeo bw
2 x Richard col
Live Sales April 2026 - 185 books (£2111.54)
66 x Romeo col
5 x Romeo bw
20 x Richard col
6 x Richard bw
2 x Omnibus
8 x Elain col
1 x Elain bw
11 x FM
10 x PODS
13 x MNDT
2 x Tales From Bible
5 x Kids comics
2 x Esther
2 x Joseph
33 x Colouring books
D2D Sales April 2026 - 9 books ($10.11)
(Although this figure will keep going up through May, on April 30th the total stood at a very satisfying 9, 10, 11 - 9 books, $10.11)
3 x Romeo bw
3 x Space Elain bw
2 x Joseph bw
1 x Richard bw
Etsy Sales April 2026 - 2 books (£8.98)
1 x 80s
1 x Euro Vol 2 digital
Lulu Sales April 2026 tbc
I don't know why April 10th should have seen a blip of 44 downloads, but that was the exception that proved the rule, probably a bot. With no new episodes uploaded since March 22nd, the podcast slides back into obscurity.
Blurb Sales April 2026 - 0 books, £0
Blog views April 2026 - 340,000
Second month of monitoring this feature, after March saw 300,00 views suddenly happen, all bots. As you can see from the graph above, April went wilder but seems to have calmed down. And the grand total earned from adverts is still about 2p a day. Those adverts will be going soon.
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