Here’s the VSCA sales as of Q1 2010.

Lulu revenue sales

Deluge (digital): 44

Diaspora (digital): 11

Diaspora (hardcover): 541

Diaspora (softcover): 29

RPG Now revenue sales

Deluge (digital): 21 23

Diaspora (digital): 93 98 101

Vendor sales

Diaspora (both bindings): 230

Totals

Deluge (digital): 65 67

Diaspora (digital): 104 109 112

Diaspora (physical): 800

Diaspora (all formats): 904 909 912

Deluge was an experiment and not really marketed at all, so its sales are mostly hardcore fans of VSCA and people picking it up because it’s cheap and near Diaspora I expect. Score one for the browsing audiences at RPG Now! Its sales are much higher than I anticipated.

For Diaspora, after the initial surge in August of 2009 at release, we had hoped to see 1000 sales during its first year. That’s a magic number of no particular significance, but it looked like a challenging goal. We figured if we hit that then we could say nice things about ourselves to ourselves. With over 900 revenue sales of Diaspora after only 8 months, this goal looks like it will be handily achieved. When we hit that mark I’ll think about the next goal.

Up next for us I think will be a concerted effort to get Diaspora into IPR affordably (for us), which means printing somewhere else. Along with that will be work on Hollowpoint, Soft Horizon, Chimaera, and Soulscape – and part of that will be prioritizing these to make sure effort goes where there’s the best chance of success. Right now Hollowpoint is closest to done and it’s a little thing, so it will probably get some focus right away and maybe release before summer. The rest I can’t speak to.

Thanks to everyone who has helped us out, and even the criticism from non-fans has been helpful. This industry-cum-hobby has been great fun for me so far as a neophyte.

-BMurray