I do this every month—or almost every month: let you all know what my book sales are for the month just ended. Normally it’s a depressing number to share and thus a depressing post to write. I look for any silver lining I can as I write these posts.

The good news for April is that I had a definite up-tick in sales. I sold 8. That may not seem like much, but when Jan-Feb-Mar was 2, 2, and 3 respectively, that’s a huge jump. One of those was a self-sale of a paperback, two were paperback sales at CreateSpace, an Amazon subsidiary that pays higher royalties then Amazon, and five were e-books at Amazon, of three different titles. And, I sold one e-book of the Thomas Carlyle encyclopedia articles book. I really don’t expect to sell any of that, so that’s a plus. No sales at Smashwords or places it distributes to. This is the fourth straight month of no sales there.

All together I had sales of four different books this month, out of fourteen published. That’s obviously not great. I’d love to be selling multiple copies of all titles every month, but I’m a long ways from that happening. The sales were all of books, not short stories, so I’ll have a higher than average royalty per sale for the month. I’m not filling a gas tank on these royalties, but I’m not unhappy.

So here’s my sales table: the full size one first, then a reduced size to link to at Absolute Write.