The 3rd quarter is in the books. At 28 sales it was better than the 1st (15) and 2nd (3), helped by a sale of 15 of my published Bible study to someone who is going to use it in a neighborhood group. In July I took part in an on-line class for Amazon ads and started running a few ads. This has resulted in 8 sales, and I'm a little ahead on royalties vs. ad spend. I'm going to do some ads for one of my non-fiction books this month. It was my first published book, and I'm working on re-publishing it with updated list of publications and a few other additions/corrections.
Writing is a little slow. I have diverted my time to transcribing letters from out Kuwait years (1988-1990) which our parents/grandparents kept and we now have. That came to 142 items, 82,000 words and 145 typed pages. I plan on turning it into an illustrated book just for family. It's going to take lots of editing, however, and more graphic arts skills than I have now. The transcription project is described here:
http://davidatodd.com/2020/09/04/the-kuwait-years-in-letters/
I'm very close to getting back to my novel-in-progress, which I don't figure on finishing this year.
Here's the sales table
..........1Q.....2Q.....3Q.....4Q....Year
2011....2.......7......11.....15.....35
2012...16.....73......45.....22...156
2013...14.....22......16.....13....65
2014.....7.....48......25......2.....82
2015...11.....25......38......9.....83
2016.... 9......6.......10....17.....42
2017...17.....22......22.....13....74
2018.....6.....18.....18......6......48
2019.....3.....30.....44....54.....131
2020....15......3.....28
Total sales to date—762