Got my semi-annual letter from InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, with a check for $5.61. That’s about what’s it’s been for several years now. It’s nice being able to depend on a steady income.
It’s a royalty check from InterVarsity Press. My three Murphy’s Law books are long since out of print in the United States, but two of them are still available from Brendow, a secular publisher in Germany: Murphy’s Laws of Parenting, and Murphy’s Laws of Marriage. You can get them on Amazon/Germany. In fact, if you order some, you’ll ensure that I continue rolling in das gut German dough.
I don’t know how many ways the profits are split at this point. With IVPress, cartoonist Rob Suggs and I split 15% of the profits (after our advance was covered). With the German publisher, it gets split four ways: InterVarsity gets half of whatever tiny percentage of the royalties Brendow contracted to fork over in licensing publication rights. Rob and I split the other half. These things are obviously selling like hotcakes in Germany, hence my monstrously generous royalty check. It could be that Germans don’t particularly care for hotcakes.
