Saturday, 29 July 2023
"better to go out and get a real job" -You can quote me on that
A little lesson in how much you can earn as a publisher.
If my book Red Paper 2022: Canids sold 100 copies at £25.00 each that would be a total of £2,500 and my 'cut' of that after printer and print company gorge themselves?
£671 -others get the remaining £1,829 (if you are in the US just change £ to $).
Oh...damn I just realised I forgot that I HAVE to pay U.S. taxes because the POD is based in the U.S. so...actually, based on the tax rate (I would be charged as a foreign national), £320. That is actually quite depressing but think about the books that cost less.
100 copies of a £8.00 book sold comes to £800. So my cut would be £386 and looking at the tax on those sales...I'd get about £100
One thing to mention is that since I use a print on demand company based in the U.S. people can order and have their books printed in their region and local postal rates BUT because the POD company is in the U.S. I would be taxed for those sales.
So you see why I intend to buy copies then delete the online store and sell only direct so I keep all of the money?
Publishing, Kids -better to go out and get a real job.
Friday, 28 July 2023
Hurricane Hurry -The Stranger On A Horse
http://www.lulu.com/shop/terry-hooper/hurricane-hurry-stranger-on-a-horse/paperback/product-24490237.html
Hurricane Hurry is seemingly always at the right place and right time to come across bush-whacking skunks, low down varmints and plain old killers.
Under cover U.S. Marshall or Pinkerton Man? Or just a stranger on a horse "moving along"?
William A. Wards Western hero slaps-irons and uses his fists to deals out some Wild West justice.
Reprinting strips not seen in 60-70 years.
Dene Vernon -Ghost and Mystery Detective
A4
B&W
24pp
£7.00
https://www.lulu.com/en/en/shop/terry-hooper/dene-vernon-mystery-detective/paperback/product-124edpvm.html
After more than 70 years John McCail's ghost and mystery detective, Dene Vernon is back. In this ClassicComic Fun reprint four of Vernon's terrifying cases -The Burning Heart! -The Terror of Steinlitz Castle! -The Evil From The East! and The Silent Pool Mystery.
Come On Steve!
A4
B&W
32pp
£6.00
https://www.lulu.com/en/en/shop/terry-hooper/classic-fun-comics-1come-on-steve/paperback/product-1gq92mwe.html
Steve The Horse the creation of Roland Davies was a hugely popular newspaper comic stripin the UK and the Steve movies of the 1930s had an international audience.
Learn how Davies got started in animation and comic strips as well as more about his career as a fine artist.
And, of course, see some of the Steve strips reprinted and Ben R. Dilworth's modern take on the innocent character!
The Independents
A4
B&W
94pp
£9.00
https://www.lulu.com/shop/terry-hooper/the-independents/paperback/product-22522001.html
Silvermaigne: Knight Ghoul-Hunter
The Silvermaigne line is said to go back to the time of the Ancient Britons.
Silvermaignes ancestors were part of a druidic clan based in the great forest that is today known as Leigh Woods, overlooking the River Severn entering (today) Bristol. All the members of the tribe had white hair from birth and they were known as the mwng arian (Silver Manes). Even the druids bowed to their knowledge of demons, spirits and things of the darkness.
But at a point several centuries ago the family split and took two paths -one embraced magik for its own fight against evil. The other renounced the use of personal magik so as not to become tainted and seduced by it.
For the first time Ben Dilworth looks at the latter branch of the Silvermaigne family and what one of them endures to keep the fight Holy!
A Look Inside the Green Skies Mega Post!
A4
B&W
124pp
£10.00
It all began in 1987 and the Black Tower Universe has seen alien attacks, heroes kidnapped to be put into the middle of a war of the gods.
Despite the deaths and losses the heroes -crime fighters, super powered and members of the magical union have come back but now unaware that alien races are escaping through the Sol system and that a mysterious space fleet is heading towards the inner planets, they find themselves trapped or distracted.
The Many Eyed One is finally coming.
The Multiversal Council has quarantined Earth and forbidden any to help.
The evil has spread and there is treachery striking at the very core of Earth's defenders
A4
B&W
126pp
£10.00
Following on from events in Green Skies V. 3 Part I the Clone Zone Boyz are increasing in number while those who created them, the Vampirons, continue to plot and await the arrival of their 'God' -The Many Eyed One.
The Druid finds that his physical and mental state are deteriorating and even the Rev. Merriwether cannot help him.
Shockingly, the Clone Zone Boyz claims someone close to Merriwether and this leads him to team up with two 'unsavoury' characters.
In space Krii and Tyn hrrn face a seemingly unstoppable enemy.
On The Moon the Selenites and representatives of other worlds meet and decide that Johnny Apollo, the Z-Man, is the only one who can lead the counter invasion fleet.
With the enemy striking Mars and then the Moon things look grim for Earth
A4
B&W
208pp
£10.00
The gathered Sol Defence fleet is prepared to make its final stand led by Johnny Apollo the Z Man. If it fails to halt the invaders then the doomsday weapon will be detonated and destroy the entire Sol System.
Meanwhile, unaware of the threat in space, Jack Flash, the Avenger and others prepare for a final show down with the Many Eyed One; a final confrontation they know they do not have the power to win.
Is this Humanity...the Earths...final day?
And woven into The Green Skies is the story of the harbinger of destruction: the story of Varik Dann -The Man Who Walked Through a Door and Into Another World
