Making Things Move! into 3rd printing!
Unbelievable. I was just informed that Foundation ActionScript Animation: Making Things Move! is now beginning its third print run, after only 5 months on the shelves. Out of the other eight books I’ve worked on, only one other one has ever made it to a second printing as far as I know, and that was after almost a year.
Also, it looks like I’ll actually be seeing some more money from this one. The way books generally work is that the author gets an advance and the royalties on the actual sales go to pay off that advance. Once the advance is paid off, any additional royalties go to back to the author. Again, out of the books I’ve worked on, only one has ever paid off its advance, and I think I wound up with and additional $50 or $100 after that. But it looks like that in the fourth quarter 05, about 70% of my advance was covered. Since the book was released in late October, that’s just over two months sales. So I think I should be getting a nice check at the end of this quarter.
So thanks for everyone buying it and saying nice things about it. As mentioned, I’m pretty sure we’ll start planning an AS3 version in the next few months, though that probably won’t see the shelves til very late 2006, if not early 2007 (in other words, keep buying this one!!!)