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State of the Rodentia, 2016
Good evening everyone. It's that time of year again... When bustling things begin to wind down and we all meander toward a few days of utter repose in the last week of December. When we pause to take stock of what's been clogging up our presses. When we roll a big (now legal in Santa Banana) spliff and try to forget that Humanity is aboard a runaway train careening at high speed toward the yawning abyss of mass extinction...
It's time to look up and smile, and pause for a brief but happy examination of what happened this year at our homey little press, and to discover what befell our precious little rodents beneath their cozy rock.
First, 2016 was a rather terrible year for writing, which is a trifle sad. Smashed-Rat-on-Press only released three rather slim books, and one additional toss-off, all year. The writerly word-count was also depressingly lower than in the past couple of years, coming in below 73,000 words (not including blog postings).
These are the books that came out this year from SROP:
(Thankfully, the low annual output can be neatly blamed on the horrors of American politics, as 2016 is turning out officially to be the most depressing year since 2001, as well as the year from which we are least likely to recover. The bright part of the year's offerings is that we were able to work four times with our fabulous photographer/illustrator/friend, Jennifer Garst.)
Now that we've got the catalog issues out of the way, let's look at sales...
The SROP paperback sales for the year 2016 totalled [drumroll please]... eight books, for a net income of zero dollars and zero cents. The total for e-books sold is... two books, for a grand total income of $3.54. Yay! That's just enough for a boutique coffee beverage, so we're now chomping at the bit, ready to splurge at the sign of the mermaid.
But wait, there's even more good news! Because 2015 was one of the slowest sales years on record (a mere three books all year), 2016 sales were more than 300% higher; and not even much lower than 50% of the record 2014 sales year. So the rats are hopping with glee tonight and have a special beer already waiting.
Meanwhile, the infamous list of SROP titles that have never been read by anyone but the author and the cover designer has grown longer. So that is a feat of which we can be quite proud, hardly (perhaps never) duplicated in the last 500 years of publishing history.
Just in case nobody's looking, here is a formidable display of never-been-read SROP books:
And remember, there are only 10 more days until the burning of the books for Yuletide.
And now, adios muchachos as we say in California... Onward and upward to 2017 and beyond.
It's time to look up and smile, and pause for a brief but happy examination of what happened this year at our homey little press, and to discover what befell our precious little rodents beneath their cozy rock.
First, 2016 was a rather terrible year for writing, which is a trifle sad. Smashed-Rat-on-Press only released three rather slim books, and one additional toss-off, all year. The writerly word-count was also depressingly lower than in the past couple of years, coming in below 73,000 words (not including blog postings).
These are the books that came out this year from SROP:
(Thankfully, the low annual output can be neatly blamed on the horrors of American politics, as 2016 is turning out officially to be the most depressing year since 2001, as well as the year from which we are least likely to recover. The bright part of the year's offerings is that we were able to work four times with our fabulous photographer/illustrator/friend, Jennifer Garst.)Now that we've got the catalog issues out of the way, let's look at sales...
The SROP paperback sales for the year 2016 totalled [drumroll please]... eight books, for a net income of zero dollars and zero cents. The total for e-books sold is... two books, for a grand total income of $3.54. Yay! That's just enough for a boutique coffee beverage, so we're now chomping at the bit, ready to splurge at the sign of the mermaid.
But wait, there's even more good news! Because 2015 was one of the slowest sales years on record (a mere three books all year), 2016 sales were more than 300% higher; and not even much lower than 50% of the record 2014 sales year. So the rats are hopping with glee tonight and have a special beer already waiting.
Meanwhile, the infamous list of SROP titles that have never been read by anyone but the author and the cover designer has grown longer. So that is a feat of which we can be quite proud, hardly (perhaps never) duplicated in the last 500 years of publishing history.
Just in case nobody's looking, here is a formidable display of never-been-read SROP books:
And remember, there are only 10 more days until the burning of the books for Yuletide.And now, adios muchachos as we say in California... Onward and upward to 2017 and beyond.
More Updated SROP Releases
Happy Mid-August! As promised in the previous blog posting, this is just a little announcement about two more SROP books that have been released in updated paperback editions to fix a few minor typos. The e-book editions have also been fluffed-up to fix a few formatting issues. Here are the pretty covers:
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The main purpose of this blog is to announce occasional additions and changes to the SROP catalog or the site. And it doubles as a soap-box from which to gesticulate and babble...
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