An unofficial continuation of the old Ink Plan, just so I can boast about where I’m up to. Or something.
The Ink Plan
Some time ago, I said that if I sell 1,000 books, I would get a journeymouse tattooed on my arm. This didn’t happen, although I’m still open to getting a tattoo if I sell 1,000 books – and if the artist can cope with me swearing a blue streak while it’s being done. I’m not a silent sufferer. Anyway, I continue to aspire to selling a large quantity of books – possibly even a moderate quantity of books – so here we go.
I’ll be donating to the National Autism Society (NAS) [External Link], with the total sum being made up of 10ps for sole authorship and 5ps for a shared project, using numbers attached to my royalties statements from Fox Spirit Books [External Link]. They’re not the outlet I’ve been published by this year but they are basically the only outlet that money has exchanged hands for my work. With allowances for delays in getting figures from Amazon, these figures cover 01/01/2015 to 31/12/2015.
ASIDE: I know that previously published anthologies (still included below for reference) continue to be sold but the numbers basically aren’t there – these sort of figures aren’t often made available to the authors of short stories in certain types of anthologies. Where possible, I’ve included numbers I know about and if anyone wants to self-report, please do so.
The 2015 Total
I have (that I’m aware of) sold 457 books in my writing career and 86 were sold last year, which means I should have donated £6.90 to NAS – in practice, I rounded it up to £10. The breakdown of how I got this is below. If you would like to make your own donation, NAS have a really easy website donation set-up.
The Bibliography
Cover & Link | Details | Previous Total | 2015 Sales | Total Number | Donation |
African Monsters Published December 2015 by Fox Spirit Books [External Link] ISBN 9781909348844 |
– | – | – | – | |
– | The Christmas Book of Ghosts Published November 2015 by Michael Collins [External Link] (In aid of Chest Heart and Stroke Scotland [External Link]) |
– | – | – | n/a |
A Pack of Lies Published June 2015 by Fox Spirit Books [External Link] ISBN 9781909348806 |
– | 13 | 13 | £1.30 (x 10p) |
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Missing Monarchs Published December 2014 by Fox Spirit Books [External Link] ISBN 9781909348738 |
– | 8 | 8 | £0.40 (x 5p) |
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European Monsters Published August 2014 by Fox Spirit Books [External Link] ISBN 9781909348724 |
– | 24 | 24 | £1.20 (x 5p) |
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25 Ways To Kill A Werewolf Published August 2014 by Fox Spirit Books [External Link] ISBN 9781909348615 |
20 | 41 | 61 | £4.10 (x 10p) |
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Amok: An Anthology of Asia-Pacific Speculative Fiction Published April 2014 by Solarwyrm Press [External Link] ISBN: 9780980508444 Short story “Gone Fishing” |
10 | Unknown | 10 | n/a | |
No Monsters Allowed Published October 2013 by Dog Horn Publishing [External Link] ISBN: 9781907133824 Short story “An Honest Woman’s Child” |
Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | n/a | |
Outlaw Bodies Published November 2012 by Futurefire.net Publishing [External Link] ISBN: 9780957397507 Short story “Good Form” |
200 | Unknown | 200 | n/a | |
Crossed Genres, Quarter 4 (no longer available) Published December 2011 by Crossed Genres Publications [External Link] ISBN 9780615578637 Short story “Beaumains” |
103 | n/a | 103 | n/a | |
Crossed Genres, Issue 17 (no longer available) Published March 2010 by Crossed Genres Publications [External Link] ISBN 9781451540963 Short story “Three Little Pigs” |
27 | n/a | 27 | n/a | |
Crossed Genres, Issue 2 (no longer available) Published January 2009 by Crossed Genres Publications [External Link] ISBN 9781441455376 Short story “Nesting Instinct” |
11 | n/a | 11 | n/a | |
371 | 86 | 457 | £6.90 |