Sales for the first six months (Jan. to June 2005)
Publisher sales
2,535 copies sold totalling $16,855
Average sale price of $6.65 per copy
(avg. 51% discount)
Original print run was 6,500. (Sold 39% during first six months.)
Author advance: $1,500
Royalties due author: $1,761 - $1,500 advance = $261
Author sales
Books sold by author: 133 copies for a total of $1,728. Profit of apprximately $600.
Total author income from book: $2,361 (first six months)
“...irreverent, clever and incredibly reassuring...”
-- ePregnancy magazine
“Not since Bill Cosby’s book, Fatherhood, has there been such a funny parenting book...”
-- Archdiocese of Boston,
Office of Religious Education
“Mixes wit and wisdom for a journey that every parent -- male or female -- can identify with.”
-- Sacramento Bee
“Tim Bete proves that laughter is the best epidural for life's rips and tears.”
-- Patricia Wynn Brown, author of MOMMA CULPA, and writer and performer of HAIR THEATER
“Smart, clever and funny. I laughed out loud at least once on every page.”
-- Karyl Miller, Emmy award-winning sitcom writer whose credits include "The Cosby Show” and "The Mary Tyler Moore Show"
“This man is funny, literally laugh out loud funny...”
-- Absolute Write newsletter
“Elicits laughs, chuckles and smiles with the same good-natured, self-deprecating approach that made Bombeck the patron saint of frazzled mothers.”
-- Stamford Advocate
“Bete writes with an honesty and enthusiasm that is infectious.”
-- Hereditas Magazine
“Unique and honest -- a cut above the rest.”
-- Blether: The Book Review Site
“Witty and wry, Tim's style will keep dads -- and moms -- laughing for a long time.”
-- Marybeth Hicks, columnist for the Washington Times
