Book Followup: One Month of the Apocalypse Variations

My dear readers. I’d like to undertake a little post-project navel-gazing if you don’t mind.

It’s been a little over a month since releasing my latest book, The Apocalypse Variations.

Some of you might be curious about how it went? Heres some info:

• Release Date: June 22, 2019.
• Price: $19.99 USD. All other markets (e.g. Canada, etc) automatically price-matched by Amazon.
• Sales in the first month were approximately 65 copies for a return of approximately $US 375. This is a fuzzy estimate as there are a lot of currencies involved.
• Thanks guys! You know who you are :)

If sales of this book follow the normal pattern (the long tail) which I’ve seen with my other books, I can predict a steady drip of 1 or 2 sales per week, in perpetuity, which would mean somewhere around $500 a year, every year. This is probably based on organic search and Amazon recommendations, but there will be small spikes due to things like next year’s #30x30DirectWatercolor, or the release of a new book.

So, to make a modest living (say, $40k?) off of books like these, you’d need 80 titles in print. That’s only 6.5 years of work if I could keep making a book a month.

Not realistic, no. But theoretically possible! And I expect things would pick up steam if you kept at it.

So, thanks again, all of you who’ve ordered a copy, and posted a review. You guys are the best!

Talk to you soon,

~m