Here’s the offical end of the Ink Plan – with final numbers and money owed!
The Ink Plan
I said that if I sell 1,000 books, I would get a journeymouse tattooed on my arm. Of course, this hasn’t happened. I haven’t managed to sell anywhere near that number of books, even including the anthologies I’ve been in over the last few years. Hoever, I will keep working on this (a little more privately) and eventually get my ink!
I can, however, make a donation to the National Autism Society (NAS) [External Link]. I’m donating 10p per each copy of 25 Ways To Kill A Werewolf and 5p per copy of an anthology sold before 31/12/2014. Anything with an ISBN counts. We’re being a bit fast and loose with ebooks, which don’t technically have ISBNs but have been counted (where reported) for the purposes of raising money and getting me closer to ink.
ASIDE: I’ve decided that I shall donate similarly (10p for sole authorship, 5p for a shared project) next year and any books that have escaped this count-up will be included next year. The money will continue to be donated to NAS. Next year’s count will (otherwise) cover 01/01/2015 to 31/12/2015.
The 2014 Total
I have (that I’m aware of) sold 371 books, which means I should have donated £19.55 to NAS – in practice, I rounded it up to £20. 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.
Note 1: Numbers for No Monsters Allowed and Amok weren’t made available – and isn’t that surprising as these sort of figures aren’t often made available to the authors of short stories in anthologies. I’ve included some numbers / copies I know about and if anyone wants to self-report for next year, please do so.
Note 2: Although European Monsters and Fox Pockets – Monarchs both came out in December, numbers aren’t out and about, yet, so these will be included in next year’s numbers.
The Eligible Books
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25 Ways To Kill A Werewolf Published August 2014 by Fox Spirit Books [External Link] ISBN 9781909348615 |
20 (29/12/14) |
£2.00 (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 (28/07/14) |
£0.50 (x 5p) |
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No Monsters Allowed Published October 2013 by Dog Horn Publishing [External Link] ISBN: 9781907133824 Short story “An Honest Woman’s Child” |
? | ? (x 5p) |
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Outlaw Bodies Published November 2012 by Futurefire.net Publishing [External Link] ISBN: 9780957397507 Short story “Good Form” |
200 (24/03/14) |
£10.00 (x 5p) |
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Crossed Genres, Quarter 4 (no longer available) Published December 2011 by Crossed Genres Publications [External Link] ISBN 9780615578637 Short story “Beaumains” |
103 | £5.15 (x 5p) |
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Crossed Genres, Issue 17 (no longer available) Published March 2010 by Crossed Genres Publications [External Link] ISBN 9781451540963 Short story “Three Little Pigs” |
27 | £1.35 (x 5p) |
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Crossed Genres, Issue 2 (no longer available) Published January 2009 by Crossed Genres Publications [External Link] ISBN 9781441455376 Short story “Nesting Instinct” |
11 | £0.55 (x 5p) |
| 371 | £19.55 |