Timeline

Phase 1: 2019 – 2020

Bushman self-published his first on Blurb.com in October 2019. The book was a compilation of the memes he created and posted online over the year prior and was called ‘Best Medicine’.

In February 2020 he uploaded three more short books to Blurb.com, ‘Guide to Manhood’, ‘A Narnian Story’, and ‘Whatever!’ The first two were earlier pieces of writing Ricky turned into books and the third was another compilation of memes and comics he had created. Whatever! is still available through the Google Bookstore.

Blurb is a self-publishing website that will print your books on demand.

Phase 2: 2021

From September to October 2021, Bushman uploaded six new books to Blurb, which were made available to the public through the Blurb marketplace.

‘Mirrabooka Dreaming’ was a compilation of soulful and insightful poems written by Ricky.

‘Good Soil – A Guide to Life’ was a full-colour book of principles on how to think and live. Information he had garnered over the previous 10 years.

‘Timmy’s Favourite Pants’ was a children’s book that was inappropriate and had a rude but funny ending.

‘Savage Memeology’ contained searing satire in the form of full-page images with text overlayed over the top. The other two books were in the same format but had specific topics.

These three full-colour picture books would be the basis for Bushman’s humourous twelve-book anthology series.

Ricky also got printed three other books in that period of photos and documents for his and his family’s private collection.

Phase 3: 2022 – 2023

In October 2022, Ricky uploaded digital copies of the first six books of his comedic anthology series to the Google Bookstore.

Bushman had made the choice to provide his books in eBook format as full-colour printing was uneconomical and the prices for his books were too high for what they were.

These six books were made available for download for between 2 and 5 dollars each.

In November of that year, he had completed the final six books in the series and had finished working on updating his existing library of books.

By the end of January, Ricky had 18 books available on the Google Book Store for digital download.

Due to a lack of sales, Ricky made the choice to offer his full library for free. And as of the middle of April Ricky had reached 500 downloads for the January to April period.

His most downloaded books are the more perverse ones from his anthology.

Phase 4 – 2023 – 2024

Ricky currently has seven books in the works for this year and the next, some of which have been written, while others are in the process.

Below are the Titles of Bushman’s upcoming books:

1. Insights into the Australian Mind – Telling quotes from everyday Aussies.
2. Insights into the Australian Mind – Leftist Propaganda.
3. Misspent Youth Trilogy: Beers & Billies.
4. Misspent Youth Trilogy: Pub Life.
5. Misspent Youth Trilogy: The Boys.
6. Getting Stoned – The Pros and Cons of Marijuana Use.
7. Queen of DeNile – Why even when you win at the pokies, you’ll lose!