I had a bit of a debate with someone last night. I write "debate" but it seemed to be all one-sided from the person concerned. You see, he had been discussing with others on some forum my books. Now h had never bought any of them and neither had those discussing this with him.
What they decided was that myu claim that when I finally cease this mortal coil my books are gone was pure bovine excretia.
I will state here what I stated to him: my family has absolutely no intertest in my comic work nor in my wildlife books/work. It has been made clear that a skip or, most likely a fire, will get rid of my "paper mountain". That's it. There is no massive business gold mine and no one will gety any monery from sales and I will be dead anyway so beyond caring. My solicitor has the authorisation to close my online bookstore when my toes curl. End of story.
I'm sorry, folks but that's how it goes. It is all print on demand (POD) so no stock held in boxes. Gone. Finito. Even selling 100 copies of a book will still mean it is very rare. About 2019 (I think) a fella wrote on a blog that "POD books are great investments because there will never be thousands of copies floating around. Invest now for a payoff later" and he actually did! One copy of each book -my biggest sale in a long while.
I explained all of this to the fella who appeared to be getting more over heated and then I quit the chat. Seriously, he and his chums (there was obvious discussion going on as I was answering his questions!) decided that there must be boxes full of my books that would survive me and that the store would never close. Not sure how I would make money from that sitting on a cloud somewhere😏
Comics is a funny old business and some 'comic fans' are...."odd"
