Monday 15 December 2008

Fantasy Book Sales Are Up

From Galley Cat comes good news for fantasy writers (including me) where Juno Books editor Paula Guran studied the Nielsen Bookscan numbers.

For last week, 49th of the year, fantasy mass market paperbacks sold 102,660 up from 62,761 units last year. Also, in mass market paperbacks, romance sold 310,689 units up from 202,667 for the week.

8 comments:

Rick said...

That's fantastic news, Barbara! I'm going to DragonCon in Atlanta this year, and that's got to be a good sign.

Cloudia said...

Good to hear. Perhaps readers are auditioning alternative views of society since our current one seems to be mutating! Aloha-

Shauna Roberts said...

That's great and unexpected news. Perhaps in economic times like these, people need to escape into a romance or a fantastic world.

Barbara Martin said...

Rick, it certainly is to me.

Cloudia, being optimistic for the future is a good way to move ahead.

Shauna, people escaped their worries in the 40s with Shirley Temple and swashbuckler movies.

Charles Gramlich said...

Good news indeed. I hope some of those sales are for my fantasy novels. lol.

laughingwolf said...

great stats, thx barbara

horror/fantasy up there too?

J. L. Krueger said...

I remember the last big up-tick for fantasy occurred durning the dark days of the Carter Administration when we had double-digit inflation, double-digit unemployment and people thought the DOW would never break 1,000.

People like to escape reality in bad times.

Barbara Martin said...

J.L., so, as fantasy writers, we ought to write something to knock their socks off!