I'm going to buy one of the Costco gel pen collections

I bought one of those the other day, and it is TOTALLY ADDICTIVE. And only 15 bucks!

Oh, there’s an “i” in your name, I can dot it with a heart. Should I do “Hugs and Kittens” or SWAK, or LOLOLOL?

I’m going to buy one of the Costco gel pen collections and you can choose your favorite iridescent color of the rainbow! *g*

Do you need me to remind you Sybil is my real name? You can go ahead and start thinking about how you want to sign my book *g*.

::makes note of Saturday afternoon::

Also, since bestseller lists are all compiled differently and draw from different sources (as you noted in your article before), they never match up exactly. And sometimes the NYT has a bit of delayed reaction. My last book was #36 on the USA Today list the same week that it was #32 on the NYT. Then it rose to #18 on the NYT the following week when it only moved up to #33 on the USA Today. So there’s not always a direct correlation, due to the different ways these lists are compiled. My sales were so high the week of release that the numbers may have affected the following week, too. It’s just not an exact science.

Tremendously post. I’m going to print that BookScan application out as soon as school is over. ;-)

BTW, ARCs for Private Arrangements would be available at RWA. I’ll be signing 100 of those at the Random House giveaway Saturday afternoon.

I have a bookscan report I found from October of last year and Lori Foster is the “smallest” name on the list to have YTD sales of 40+. Of course, assuming that Bookscan only captures about half the market for a mass market book that is in drugstores, grocery stores and mass markets, the list is slightly more expansive. (remember than each week’s book scan has YTD sales but is not representative of the entire years’ placements. .e., a book could have sold 20,000 units in the first few months it was out and just not be turning out sales large enough to get on bookscan later in the year.

Rachel Gibson, Jo Beverly, Susan Squires all sold in the 20+ range by October. (Gibson usually comes out in August so her numbers probably climbed).

In looking at the October bookscan list, most of the 15+ sellers were big names: Jillian Hunter, Brenda Joyce, Linda Howard, Maggie Shayne, Angela Knight.

This tells me that Romance Writers have to have at least two books a year to make even a moderate income if you are a midlist writer. If you are a superleader, then you can probably make it with just one book a year.

But again, I could be totally wrong because I don’t know what everyone’s royalties are at the end of the day.

Jane, can you think of, off the top of your head, of a romance writer who doesn’t get really high on the list b/c of lack of selling velocity, but who sells very well overall thanks to consistency?

It started out as a trilogy, but I remember hearing that she’s sold a fourth book in the series recently.