Convention Recap: Dragon Con 2026 - Selling and Signing

If you want to skip to the punch line, I broke $2,500 bucks for the first time ever. Now that's settled, how did I get there?

So I had three ways by which I sold books: 

1. Once again I was in the Sidestreet Book Market, the brainchild of Ben Meeks. Once again I gave away all of my signing times in order to maintain more balance, with all the paneling I did. You might recall that last year on Friday I did not have my yard sign up, and I only sold 60 bucks worth. This year I had the sign there on Friday, and sold 360 bucks worth. So yeah, the sign works.

I ended up totally selling out of every book I brought, save for 6 copies of Southern Saudade. How wild is that?

2. Once again I was allowed to set up at the Fantasy Gather, a four hour book market for Attending Professionals and Guests of the Con.

3. I was invited to participate in a one hour signing as part of the Urban Fantasy Track. Shockingly, with Patricia Briggs also doing a signing at that time, folks weren't exactly swarming my table. That said, I was very, very happy to sell 300 bucks worth. For an hour's work? Yes please.

What will I do different next year?

• I will bring more books for the booth, seeing as I sold out. Probably at least ten more of each.

• I will have new books as well, so that will be nice.

The Numbers

Booth Sales:

• Bringing Home the Rain: 21 for $420.00 (18 last year)

• The Demons That Haunt Him: 20 for $800.00 (14 last year)

• Burning Wisdom: 5 for $200.00 (1 last year)

• Southern Saudade: 4 for $80.00 (7 last year)

• Total: 50 books (40 last year) for $1,500.00 (pre-booth fee) $1,200.00 (post-booth fee)  ($1,174.66 last year)

Gather Sales:

• Bringing Home the Rain: 17 sold for a total of $340 (17 last year)

• The Demons That Haunt Him: 17 sold for a total of $680 (16 last year)

• Burning Wisdom: 5 for $200(4 last year)

• Southern Saudade: Brought none (1 last year)

• Total Sales: 39 for $1,220 (38 for $1,130 last year)

Signing Sales:

• Bringing Home the Rain: 5 sold for a total of $100

• The Demons That Haunt Him: 5 sold for a total of $200

• Total Sales: 10 for $300 (7 for 240 last year)

Dragon Con Overall:

• Total Book Count: 99 (85 last year)

• Total Sales: 3,020 (2544.66 last year)

• Table Cost: 20% of my booth sales: 300

• Total Profit: 2,720.00

Total Brought/Sold:

• Bringing Home the Rain: 45/43

• The Demons That Haunt Him: 45/42

• Burning Wisdom: 10/10

• Southern Saudade: 10/4