Here's what we wrote on this day one year ago.
Up until a week ago we planned on writing we were disappointed with 2023, but then we realized there was nothing else we could do to World War 1990: The Final Storm and we might as well publish. That's two books out in 2023 after three in 2022 and none in 2021. Reminder, there will never be another year in which we don't publish a book.
Below, our 2023 top 10 eBook sales. KU reads mirror the chart below:
Blue is The Aftermath of 1976, yellow is The Great Nuclear War of 1975, red is The New American Order: 1977-1981. Oh, green is World War 1990: The Weser. Will's iron law of book sales is still in effect. A spike, a peak, followed by a steady, predictable monthly drop off of around 20 percent.
2023 eBook sales slightly outpaced 2022 eBook sales. This is good. We make more money on the eBook sales. 2023 KU reads were about 5 percent behind 2022 KU reads. Overall, these are good sales numbers, considering our second book of 2023 didn't come out till 21 December. We believe the nuclear war series brought in a lot of new readers. To put it another way: the audience expanded.
Fun fact, after The Weser, which leads WW 1990 sales, the rest of the WW1990 books all sold about the same. That back list does a lot of heavy lifting. We looked at various advertising ideas last year and concluded that the best way to expand was to keep writing.
Once more, our top three markets mirror Normandy + Australia. We have toeholds in Europe. Germany is our leading market. Kraut, tosers.
This blog has had a fine year. We've enjoyed writing longer posts. We cross post everything at Substack now. We don't know what we'll do with Substack in the future.
We had hoped to find another semi-regular writing gig in 2023. We got two pieces in 1945, but the editor more or less ghosted us, and they last published an article on 28 November. Oh well.
We did not grasp all that for which we reached [Huh?-Ed], but we had a decent enough year.
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