Measured by books published, 2025 was a good year.

Measured by book sales, 2025 was an okay year.

Measured by new writing, 2025 was a so-so year.

As with my last post, I’ll do this by bullet points.

• I started 2025 having just had a seizure, and not really feeling like writing—or really doing much of anything. Another seizure in April interrupted whatever progress I was making. I would wake up each morning, not feel like writing, or stock trading, or much of anything. I had a lot of what I call “file maintenance”—that is, organizing computer files to eliminate duplicates, putting the files in the right place, changing the names to descriptive names. This is a lot of what I did in in 2025.
• I published Vol 1. in my Bible study series, A Walk Through Holy Week, in early 2024. I had volumes 2-8 written by the end of 2024. They were only awaiting final editing and publishing. I managed to do that for Vol. 2 and published it on March 22. Vol. 3 followed on March 28. Both of these required little work except formatting and final creation of the e-book and paperback. Vol. 4 came out on May 1st, Vol. 5 on Sept. 5, and Vol. 6 on Oct 31. Volume 8 is within a week or two of being published. That will finish the series.

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  The only other book I published was The Saudi Years In Letters, the collection of letters from our time in Saudi Arabia, 1981-1983. This was mainly for family members. Alas, I have since found another dozen letters to add to it, and will have to re-do it.

• My total book sales for the year were only 238. That was with no author events. That was my third best year, but well below 2024’s 326 sales, my best year. My historical-political series, Documenting America, continues to sell many more copies than anything else.

I have another three to five days of editing on the seventh in my Bible study series, then maybe a week of formatting and file creating. I hope it will be published by Jan 15. After that, I’ll be hot and heavy in moving from Bella Vista, Arkansas to Lake Jackson, Texas.

I’ll do one more post in this series, on my writing goals for 2026.