Professionally we had a great year. We continued blogging apace. We will have colluded with the Russians 35 times after we submit our final piece of the year this week. We published a quartet of pieces at 19fortyfive. Strategy & Tactics published a pair of old articles they'd been holding on to. we published a piece on heavy metal at The Brazen Head. We were nominated for a Sidewise Award. We had our best sales year ever:
Those are our top ten selling books, the World War 1990 series, the two Israel Strikes books and A Line through the Desert. That light blue line is Nederland. More than any other reason, the strength of sales why we keep writing in the World War 1990 universe. Also we have a tonne of ideas.
Sales remained remarkably strong through June and then tapered off slowly. Sales were greatly helped by out posting at the now defunct Helen's Page, run by Instapundit's Insta-wife. A post and a link at Instapundit were worth dozens of sales - and new readers. Had we been able to get a book out this autumn...In theory whatever money we lost from not publishing this year we'll get next year. The only downside is taxes. Our bottom months this year are about three times better than our bottom months last year. Clearly, we gained a ton of new readers.
Our top five markets are the US, UK, Canada, Australia and Germany. We have sold nothing on Amazon Netherlands. Weird.
We got The Great Nuclear War of 1975 ready to go The Great Salvation of 1976 and World War 1990: The Weser are almost ready to go. World War 1990: The Final Storm has been a tough slog, it is probably closer to completion than we think.
We tried Substack and a few other internet endeavors and aren't really satisfied. Only on Gab have we been mildly successful. We are wondering what's the point?
Overall, a great year.
No comments:
Post a Comment