Bruce did his Cooper book on a pauper's budget so he might actually turn a profit.
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The book cost about a thou to get off the ground - ISBN numbers, editing, graphic design, page set-up, etc., for Amazon specs. Another thou in marketing: mostly sending free copies to all the principals, such as Tina, Flo, Alice and the gang; Detlor, Himms, and other feddies; and then off to bookstores and libraries.
I got a big bump in book sales from the HC docu in July, and another in January from the TC show, for a total of two grand in gross. Since then, I'm averaging about 200-hundred a month in royalties, so I've made about $800-1,000 in profit. Not too shabby for eight years of writing!
RMB, when you read this, please don't bother sending me any emails about how you could make me SO much more money. I delete all your emails, so please save me the trouble of doing some more.