Monster Royalties Patter Like Rain

May 3, June 7, then the day before yesterday, June 24 . . . what is it with this spring/early summer? Gargantuan royalties falling like raindrops (“gargantuan” in this case meaning any positive number, no matter how small). Publishers and actual amounts, as always, omitted for sake of this report. In this case it wouldn’t even make a down payment on lunch, but it’s for a story that opened a small anthology just short of ten years ago.

So the things keep selling, in dribs and drabs — in this case two copies bought over a three month reporting period, the consequent take divided of course by the number of authors for books that weren’t that expensive at full price. But maybe it’s COVID-19 with holed-up people confined to their homes, desperate for things to read to pass the time? Usually, maybe, I’ll get one report in a given quarter, but for this one, three!

Again, not much money (well, scarcely any), but isn’t it nice just to know these older stories are still being read!