The Blog for Elizabeth Watasin, Writer & Illustrator, and for A-Girl Studio.
My YA urban fantasy adventure novel, WIT’S WORLD: NEVER WAS™ debuts SPRING 2011!
Stay posted for Advance Chapter Previews!
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Read the latest post, below!
I’m still sick *_*, so here is stuff my brain can handle:
Charm School 10 p1, the thumbnail ruff, and then following, the Rough:
You can see when I ‘thumbnail’ rough for CS, I work full size, 10×15 inches, pretty much. I’ve always done that with the girls, not sure why. Looser or something. And you can see in the thumbnails how cartoony they are, and then I go ‘realistic’ by posing myself out and using that as reference . . . and still retaining the ‘acting’ and initial Attitude of the thumbnails.
Here’s page 2:
I don’t know where my mind was, but I managed to switch the first two panel strips in the 2nd pass rough; Fairer Than is supposed to do the side whisper first and then go back into ‘uh oh’ mode. You can see how much cuter and cartoony the characters are in the thumbnails. Fairer Than has a multitude of frantic thoughts while Bunny stares her down. Fairer Than in the fourth panel is ‘half head’ format, but I didn’t carry that over to the ‘final’ ruff version. Charm School never goes super cartoony in a manga kind of way, so I err on more human looking acting.
So that’s Charm School. Here’s my new DARQUE TOWNE™ story:
These are the thumbnails, which I drew on just 8.5×11 paper, in ball point. I’m trying something new, I don’t consider this strictly sequential art/comic book, I’m hoping for Storybook, but then I am using word balloons as well. And then I forget I’m trying for Storybook Style and start cramming way too many ‘panel’ type images on to one page. So this is supposed to be 24-28 pp BUT I’m screwing up with so many images to the page. I should either cut images or move them on to new pages. We’ll see how it works out! I’m pretty sure that a pleasing ratio between Narrative Words and Images would make for more pleasurable reading—i.e., it would probably be better to make it 70 percent Words and 30 percent Pictures. When it’s the reverse, I should commit to more Panel-type presentation so that it’s not so busy on the page for the overwhelmed brain.
So I roughed out 22pp so far and once I ruff the whole thing I will go back through and cut stuff or make 2 pages out of 1, that sort of thing.
Remember my cover for WIT’S WORLD: NEVER WAS™, that’s coming out this Spring 2011? Still working on it. I went for a whole new design:
I will explain it, eventually! Maybe there’s something in being sick while drawing. Maybe I’ve gotten it right this time! 
The old pose, for the old cover idea, which just didn’t fly when I kept thinking how the final cover would look when up on Amazon and such:
I feel like working on it though, just to make an EM illustration, since I haven’t worked on the heroine of my novel for like Forever. And now guess what, I’m going to give you a small excerpt from my book. What I’m in the middle of, right now, is Rewrite. Yes, that crappy dreaded word, Rewrite, Revision, whatever. The process of novel making is . . . annoying for someone like myself who is so used to the fasttrack life. But the Rewrite is making the novel very, very good. It’s so much better I shouldn’t begrudge the time spent making it better. But I do, because life is short and I want this book done, I want the second book started, I need the Darque Towne stories up and running, and I want ice cream.
While sick I’ve managed to revise the first 9 chapters and have 30 or so more. So here’s an excerpt from chapter 5 of WIT’S WORLD: NEVER WAS™, a story about people trapped in a fantasy park in another dimension. In this excerpt, just one of the characters is walking around in the city that’s the original Reality. It’s not been edited yet, at all, so consider it a very rough version. Enjoy!:
Rif had followed a strict athlete’s diet that he had to prepare himself when he was a competing wrestler, but since coming to Silver City he took his construction pay to the remaining, oddball restaurants and enjoyed the comforts of their home style fare. Gravy, meat and potatoes, barbeque and fried chicken, soups, chowders, and pies, fresh baked bread, butter and biscuits, slow cooked rice, beans and greens; it was adventuresome eating after being so long on a regimen so Rif balanced it out with training. Eating out had its tactile qualities and those became part of his awareness too; the thump of a hot dish laid down for him, the clink of silverware and glasses, the pouring of coffee, the scrunch-sound of paper napkins pulled from the table container for fingers that were too dirty. He ordered things off the menus he could never be too sure about but was willing to try, like ‘Va Va Voom Chicken’, ‘Cave Man Pie’, ‘Thunder Soup’, and ‘Spaghetti Space Colony’. Sometimes the food came in boats, spaceships, or in fire bowls. Some places even had shows, though the Cannibal Grove, to Rif’s disappointment, no longer hosted the famous ‘native girls dance number’ that he’d heard of. Their drum nights and fire dances, however, were still good. Rif thought when he learned to write better, he might keep a notebook on his dining experiences.
Besides the food, he liked the old restaurant buildings, useless or not. He knew that his mom would have shared that opinion. The buildings made no provocative statement beyond exactly what they presented themselves to be, but Rif recognized the value in such simplicity; it was innocent and harmless. In their heyday, mermaids swimming in tanks and food smoked in piglets had given people something more than just a place to sit and eat. His brother preferred bars and strip clubs but Rif wanted to discover what was unique to Silver City. This was why he enjoyed the route he walked on Saturday mornings, gazing openly at all the strange structures while no one was awake in them yet. Someone had to build such places and he thought it would be nice for once to be that kind of person rather than the one who destroyed things.
His favorite building was the Wizard’s. It made waffles, it looked like something out of storybooks and better yet, it had princesses.
end excerpt.
Everyone who vended at Baltimore Comic Con, hope you had a blast and did well! 
OK, me back to bazeewhizbazzwazz . . .
~~eee! antibiotics + cough syrup=me buzzy, whee! (crash land on couch, later).
When I first resurrected this blog back in Jan 2010 and saw myself returning to the Creator Life, I had a pretty darn good feeling about making new things and reaching people—buyers, readers, Supporters—through the interwebs. I had this vision that I could sit at home in my PJs, make all kinds of stuff, and just sell directly to all the good folks who like to support creative types like me. Three workshops later, 5-6 How-To books later (I’m still working on 2 of them), and Tons of internet research, several website incarnations, etc, and so forth, later—
I’m finding myself doing things like making spreadsheets. For actual convention, fair, and expo events I somehow want to actually GO to. Even the ones I can’t afford. What’s up with that?
This is this year’s L.A. Festival of Books, which was last April, I think:
This part of the venue was where graphic novel, animation, and comic book types had their booths. Personally, I saw it as off the beaten track, and am eager to place myself with Authors over in the main thoroughfare—by securing a seat at a certain Writers Society booth. But that’s not what I was going to talk about—my plans for this festival in 2011. I wanted to ramble about Events.
More of what a Book Fair looks like, there are quite a few like this across the country (unless the economy has killed them) and Tent prices are kind of up there, 475.00 pretty much, tops. With a 10x10ft space that could be considered a bargain compared to a booth at comic book conventions. After checking out people’s setups at the Festival of Books, I had to come to the conclusion that some vendors brought extra tables in order to open up the insides to more browsing opportunities (come into my tent and see my etchings)…
Back when I was on Frog production and thinking about All Of This Self-Promotion Stuff, I had asked my friend Pigors what he thought about vending: Was it really necessary? Was there a benefit to it despite having to eat a lot of costs? Can’t I just stay at home in my PJs and not go?
Mr. Pigors had been merchandising his ToxicToons characters for a few years now and does the niche shows for such art and merch (and check out his link, because he’s currently selling his version of the ghost characters from the Haunted Mansion). If Eric says it’s important to go and work these events, then I really ought to take his advice seriously. Meeting people is important. Exposure is really important. Even when the events don’t pay for themselves at least one pair of eyeballs will know my work is out there.
A three table set up with some shelving and Merch. Kind of funky but it works.
Even in this age of interwebs there’s a need to take our bodies into Real Space and have a meet and greet, a shaking of the hands, to have goods to fondle, to wear costumes, to eat Bad Food, and participate in some kind of Awesome Social Culture. Our stuff, these comics and books and Merch goodies, are all a part of that. I met longtime children’s book author and illustrator K. Michael Crawford at SDCC 2010 and had to admire her energy and attitude while working her bit of table as a Self-Publisher. Check out her great activity books at happilyeverart.com, I am totally inspired by how she makes the art of Vending work for her.
But back to the Festival of Books: I bought watercolor brushes (the kind you fill with water, YAY!!!) from Kinokuniya Books’ booth!
That is a pic of their display, not of what I took home. In case you were assuming.
I had just been out of town, hence the rather longer absence from the blog, and I got SICK, blargh, but I’m getting better. I managed to avoid Con Crud only to catch germies afterwards. But sickness helps to take me out of action and make my Business Hats fall off. I really think it’s time to stop thinking about Promotion and Printing right now (though I’m still thinking about them), because my future table spaces at mysterious New Events of 2011 need something Essential. Something besides just my modest urban fantasy YA novel, WIT’S WORLD: NEVER WAS™:
They need additional, Gorgeous Content.
Look!! While I was away I scored more brush pens:
I eye people like Patty Leidy and Nina Paley and Donna Barr and yes, Roberta Gregory and watch how they keep kicking out Content *weekly*. Damn!!! I need to get off my PJ’ed ass and get me some of that. 
Back to it. To everyone making stuff or planning to make stuff, HAVE FUN and good luck!!
Best,
~~eeeee!
PS: And Donna’s Desert Peach is Here. This website is a niiice setup. Envy.
But I ated it!
It was as big as my head too, and Delishus. Oh, and Martha Stewart freeks, I wanted to eat this cookie badly, so Yes, the edges are crappy. It wasn’t like I was going to show it to anyone. Important.
Recipe, courtesy of Neato Coolville!
MANY THINGS:
I printed out many promos and cut them (crooked) for Miss Carolyn to pass out at her Convention/Fair/Expo gigs on the East Side! RIGHT ON CURLS STUDIO!! She is doing PHILLY ALTERNATIVE COMIC CON *right now*, I was lame and thought it was last Sunday but it’s this SUNDAY SUNDAY SUNDAY!
And if you pick up my promo from her or from the Freebie table, let me know!
WIT’S WORLD: NEVER WAS™, my beloved first, Awesome young adults urban fantasy adventure (etc) novel is still being Polished Up, but it’s getting there, and at some point I will return my attention to the darn book cover. While wearing Artist hat, I really, really don’t like to interrupt my Flow. That’s not good for creativity and for Making Things, you know it. I try to think of how Virginia Woolf described in A ROOM OF ONE’S OWN how Jane Austen managed to write even though she had no private study and was probably constantly interrupted by family and friends (the reason being, in her time, women were not considered serious writers, so if she were found writing, it was probably some letter or something and therefore it should be perfectly fine to demand of her attention). Can you imagine? So one thing I have to adapt to is handling interruptions from the 4 corners of indy book publishing and making sure Art (Visual Art) gets the time it deserves.
But that will not be today! I went to the Orange County Fair and had a funnel cake:
NOM NOM NOM
And while at the Fair I saw Fairy Peeples:
Announcement! I’m on LibraryThing, I claimed my Author’s Page (Right On!!) so now you can see my new ‘Author’s Photo’ where I am at the Fair. A ferris wheel is coming out of my head. I’m also on BookTour.com, which is beta but still cool. My first event in a 1000 years will be Long Beach Comic Con 2010 this coming October!
Check out my crappy photo with my buddy and Awesome d00d, Jimmie Robinson, creator of Bomb Queen (and many, many other things!) at San Diego Comic-Con 2010. HE looks great, I look like I just ate a funnel cake. Doesn’t Jimmie clean up nice?
Man, it is time for Spartacus Workouts!! I want to trim down for the sake of my heart and blood pressure, and also so I can keep eating cookies and funnel cakes.
I have been making spreadsheets (I really…Dislike spreadsheets), yes, that dirty word, just to keep lots of information related to Social!!! Media!!! Promotion!!! in nice, little neat ducks in a row. One I’m wrapping up is for Appearances (con/expo/fair specific), and I have to move on to Reviewers, and erm, kind folks who might give my book Blurbs, and so forth. I’m doing this myself of course, just like the sweet cut-cut-cutting of my own Promo handouts because I am a Control Freak of Obsessive Attention, and I can’t budget for a Publicist right now. I invested in my beloved R2D2, the Xerox Phaser 8860, because it’s going to make piles and piles of Book Excerpts for me too. Y’know, those things like comic book Ashcans that are handed out for free so potential readers can see what WIT’S WORLD: NEVER WAS™ is about and then fall in love with it and then Buy it later? With those Book Excerpts I will Rule The World.
And the free E-Zine sign up on this site? (and other web locations )? That will be set up. The NEVERWASONLINE.COM site? That needs work. Those cans of garbanzo and pinto beans I’m eating? They’re delishous, thank you.
The thing is this: The economy is crap, I will do the best I can to get through the next lean months until SPRING 2011. Until then, I am Making A Book.
Have a great rest of the week, people!!!
~~~eeee!!
“HI MISS ELIZABETH! What did you do today???” HI KIDS, I’ve been readin’ on How To make some books! Want to see?
Well even if you don’t here you go:
(Disclaimer: If I get anything wrong, correct me!! I do not pretend to be an actual Expert on this subject).
(Aside) and Kids, here is a fast and dirty explanation of how to make a book!:
A book is written, you are the writer. A writer needs an Agent to sell that book to a publisher. A publisher might accept. A publisher assigns you an editor. Someday your book goes into print. Yay!!! Now, other-case scenario: Oops, your editor got laid off. Oops, your publisher folds. Is your Agent still there and not on maternity leave? Begin round two.
The food chain: Writer—Publisher—Printer—Distributor—Retailer—the reading public
The Writer is you. The Publisher is who manages you and owns certain Rights to your book when you sign a contract. In theory, the Publisher takes care of You. The Printer is the press that physically makes your books. The Distributor is the business that takes your books, ships them, and fulfills orders to librarians, bookstores, and online book sellers. The Retailer is any brick and mortar book seller and online seller. The reading public is the actual reader who buys the book.
You can do the math of how much each entity gets of the profits of your book, and then what you get after everyone’s cut—depending on what contract you have signed. I’ve not included the fees of your Agent.
NOW:
Making a Book the DIY WAY:
Me (writer and self-publisher)—Print-on-Demand Printer/Distributor—Retailer—You, the reading public
Print on Demand means: Books are printed only when ordered. A self-publishing writer does not have to order pallets of books. A writer doesn’t have to store those books. A writer doesn’t have to open an online storefront, take orders, and ship these books out. A writer can order a bunch of books to sell at public appearances.
Important Info: POD is done with digital printers, and their quality of reproduction may or may not please you. Worst case scenario, probably not. Offset printing is traditional printing (where you have to buy your books in bulk). Art Books and Picture books are best printed with Offset printing. You have to do the math on which will serve your book best, and which you can afford to invest in.
In POD printing, there are certain entities who will ALSO act as your ‘Publisher’ by providing design, layout, and other services. Promoting/Marketing is not part of that deal (and if you pay someone for that, it better be a darn legit Publicist). I refer to such publishers as vanity presses, because they take a significant cut of the sales, and in some cases a writer *pays* them in advance for their ‘services’. Such entities are: Lulu.com, Authorhouse, and maybe even CreateSpace (Amazon), although that I don’t know for sure.
The POD Printer/Distributor I refer to in the DIY food chain are *Printers* run by the Distributors themselves. They are *not* Publishers. Publishers manage your books, these guys will only print them and Distribute them directly to the retailers who will stock them. You do not have to pay them. Since I’m doing my own design, layout, and Promotion, I am acting as my own Publisher (A-Girl Studio!).
The two major Distributors in North America are Ingram and Baker & Taylor. Who orders books from them? Every library, book store, and online book seller.
So for my urban fantasy novel, WIT’S WORLD: NEVER WAS™, I am using:
Lightning Source, the printing arm of Ingram. Amazon, B&N, etc order from Ingram.
For my Story Books (DARQUE TOWNE™), I am using:
TextStream, the printing arm of Baker & Taylor. They serve all of the above *and* Borders.
The contracts with each of these printers who distro books are Non-Exclusionary. Therefore, I can have my novel *and* my story books printed and distributed by both printers. I picked TextStream for my Story Books because they will print a 24 page book, perfect bound and with 4-color interiors. Currently, Lightning Source’s presses don’t quite have that capability.
NOW—hey Kids, are you asleep? HERE’S more Fun!!:
What is the layout of a Picture Book in Print (the basics) (please excuse snarkiness of the blogger. This is Required Info):
http://editorialanonymous.blogspot.com/2008/10/basic-book-construction.html
Picture Book layout and breakdown as given by a very helpful (and nice) writer:
Illustrations via POD printers, what to keep in mind so that the stuff doesn’t look like Poo:
http://www.fonerbooks.com/2005/09/book-illustration-and-print-on-demand.html
HOW TO layout and format the final book *exactly* to your printer’s specifications and needs (or else it will look like Poo) is given (hopefully) in step by step PDFs by your chosen printer. Each printer has different needs thanks to their different machines.
EBOOKS:
So now your, my, whatever, book is laid out BEAUTIFULLY and CORRECTLY for print. Woo Hoo!!! Now strip that document of its gorgeous formatting. WE must submit the book to work digitally across many E-Readers and a bazillion platforms.
I will be using Smashwords, an ebook Distributor, *not* a publisher (again, more $$$ in your pocketeses!!). Smashwords has a Grinder that will spit out your carefully formatted manuscript *to their 24+ step specifications How-To* (download it from their site) into formats suitable to buy for the Amazon Kindle, B&N Nook, Sony e-reader, PDF format, .txt format, etc.
I will be using Amazon DTP to publish an ebook directly to the Kindle. Why? Currently, if a writer prices their ebook at $2.99, the writer’s cut is 70 percent. From Smashwords (after their very reasonable cut), it’s 45 percent. This could change and I can always go back to having Kindle versions available from Smashwords.
HOW TO publish Comic Books and Picture Books digitally:
I haven’t figured that out yet. :/
And that ends the 5 Minute Show!!! YAY!!!! (Applause Sign)
TIME to take reference pics of me falling out of the sky!! Holding a cake knife!! Thanks for reading and I’ll try to remember to supplement this info with all those How-To BOOKS I’ve consulted. Tomorrow, I have a date with some wee ones and carnival games.
have a Great Weekend,
~~eeeee!
…busy! I’m late with a San Diego mini report, and that’s because I need to Make Things, seriously! So in a capsule I am:
—Working on my book cover
—Learning how to use my R2D2 to Make Things (my nickname for my Xerox Phaser 8860 solid ink printer: note to self, make sure the files are RGB, make sure that Photoshop dictates Color, take out the EFX, etc)
—Learning how to use my Industrial stack cutter (Safety!! First!!!!)
—Getting ginormous graphic design and Print-ready feedback from Miz M. (Let’s grade my efforts a kind of B-)
—Staring at my editor’s 1000 notes
There’s more but I am wearing a lot of hats. Except for one; who’s paying the bills?
Well, you know, God will provide and all that. Below is the book cover’s Composition in progress. I still have to add a representation of the Castle in the center of this World my dear protagonist, EM, is possibly falling in:
WHAT is all that?? WHY is she holding a cake knife??? Good questions! That’s not a cake knife! I’ve changed the character pose about 3 times, and then went back to my second posing. The fantasy park below her (the WIT’S WORLD of my book, WIT’S WORLD: NEVER WAS™, ho ho), was re-designed just as many times. And there’s still no castle (it’s somewhere among the roughs, needing to be scanned in). I need to fix that arm. I don’t like that arm.
All of my covers for Charm School were EFFORTLESS compared to this one. It’s all in pieces because I keep moving each element an increment over, and then an increment over there. Maybe a tilt. Whoops, now have to figure out the directionals. I especially need to push the sizes more, I really would like EM bigger, if I can make that work. It’s too bad that the book logo is the same size as EM. Hey, I’m rambling, but this is what goes on in my head All The Time when I’m working towards what I hope is an interesting and worthwhile Composition.
And then after that the Color Palette. And then the technique. Oh, and then how to make sure the cover is actually PRINTABLE. But I’ll get to that horse when I see it.
I need to change her expression and the head position.
Book covers. Book cover for a NOVEL, I might add. Why so burdensome? Version 4 coming up.
PLUG: Miz Carolyn Belefski and Curls Studio will be at http://phillyaltcon.blogspot.com/, that’s the Philadelphia Alternative Comic Con to you East Coast folks! Support your local or non-local zinesters and crafters!! GO, this Sunday, and be Amazed by the DIY goodies!
Me, I hope to be at a local county fair eating a deep fried zucchini stuffed with a sausage.
Have a very good weekend!
~~eeeeeeeee
…I never got to take off that Publisher hat and then put Promoter hat on top of that. In the midst of thinking on 1000 THINGS I suddenly thought, what the hey? Let’s just go to San Diego!!
New business cards! Water! Snack! (oops, ate that already) Paperwork! Properly packed bag! (tissues, hand sanitizer, gum) Emails! (‘Wanna do lunch?’ ‘Want to have a cookie/coffee/hotdog together?’ ‘How about seafood?’) GAS up the damn car!!
I’m just Visiting for ONE day. And leaving that night. YOu would think I was exhibiting at the Con or something.
But I am thinking about these things (it’s one of the 1000 thoughts I’m thinking), to prepare for when I start exhibiting. My first event for my new book, WIT’S WORLD: NEVER WAS™, will be LONG BEACH COMIC-CON, this coming October 2010. So I’m visiting SDCC to get that exciting Energy that an outrageously huge Event, with its costumers, exhibits, EVENTS (Zombie Walk this SAT!!), SCA fights (yes!!), celebs (the original Bionic Woman is going to be there!!) has all magically its own, and also to see…Comic Book People!
Yeah peeps, comic book people! Mostly at tables and booths in little areas like ‘Artist Alley’, Small Press alley, and Web Comics alley. There are illustrators and creators at bigger Publisher booths and Islands too. I’m going to be supportive and check out works and how people set up for these events. Wednesday (as I write this, it’s now Thursday), was Set-up Day for vendors and Preview night too. The buzz on FB makes Preview night sound like a madhouse. That’s scary, because it’s not a ‘regular’ Con day. It’s also heartening in the sense that I *hope* people exhibiting got some good sales.
SDCC has become such a monstrous event in terms of size and expense that I’m really unsure whether an unknown Novelist (because that’s what I’m making now–wordy books!) will get any benefit from the 125,000 glazed eyeballs looking for toys and stuff that says COOOOL–on paper and in other ways. When I can take off the business hats and go back to happily creating I’m planning on Story Books and Comic Zines to go along with the Novels. So when I look at SDCC I’m also thinking about how I could do 4 local book fairs in comparision to the expense of San Diego, or 2-3 Sci Fi/Fantasy Expos in California for the same cost. The event is wonderful if you’re just attending, which is what I’ll be doing on SAT. It’s not so much fun when you need to pay for your exhibitor expenses with your sales.
That’s WHY, if you are going to SDCC TODAY, or planning a day trip or weekend trip down there, definitely visit the tables and support the artists. Yes, I know it’s a bad economy and all, but I figured I’d just ask. And if you’re a fellow artist you Know how exciting and inspirational it is to see other people’s work–not on the web, not in some magazine, or on a flyer at the comic shop. You’re seeing it all right there, Live, thoughtfully set up with the Creator sitting right behind the shiny covers of new books. That’s exciting. That’s the sharing of a Proud-making moment.
Remember to take pictures.
Have a great rest of the week! I have to go find another snack to pack!!
The best,
~~eeeee!
Let me briefly don my publisher Cap. OK then:
Being new at this game, it is very interesting to learn about new and Nifty things that must obey certain time frames, and also, must obey the Law of: You gotta do This, Elizabeth, before you gotta do That.
Now are you sure about that? (she asks the many, extremely Good books she’s consulting) In today’s new and ever morphing Online market, am I still beholden to do A, B, C, and not necessarily C, and maybe go back to B, and—Y’OK, fine, Gods of Print and Matter, looks like I have to!!
So I’m still working on the step by step ‘Publishing’ timeline (do 1., then 2., then 3…..). I’d had these resources (books) for quite a while now and upon finally delving into them with greater depth discovered some stuff that needed Doing that would require even more months of planning. And these things? Very, very necessary if I want to make sure the print book gets to all parties concerned on this Planet. For example, if Amazon had a location on the Moon, I will still need to do all the steps 1, 2, 3 necessary to get the print book There. Geez, we live such a Linear work frame when it comes to Printed matter, and there’s no way of getting around it. For now. Hmmm.
I’ll be happy to share all that I’ve learned when I have it entirely figured out. Just know that by my own enforced deadline of seeing my print book of WIT’S WORLD: NEVER WAS™ available by Nov 26th, 2010, I really didn’t take into account the new and Nifty things I’ve just learned. So the clock at the sidebar, ticking down the wonderful days and hours to Em and Pip’s B-Day?
Well, let’s make that the launch for Their Site, NEVER WAS ONLINE™, and we’ll go from there.
I am, obviously, personally disappointed to not fulfill my own enforced deadline. Geez, who wouldn’t. I’d take up a rock and stone me. But I am learning, maturing, turning into fine cheeze, whatever, more and more while immersing in this process of not just making a product (thank you, all my time on the production of so-called blockbuster movies for valuing Art as a Commodity), but making something truly worthwhile and Everlasting.
That is so important. I’m like, wow, I am learning this, the Value of Something, once again.
My book editor and motion designer, btw, can now take a breather and also enjoy that Value as well.
If you want to know what books I’m consulting, just check my Goodreads for what I’m ‘currently reading’. I won’t be moving those books off that list soon, they are extremely valuable and need constant consultation. There are links and other resources too, but I’ll provide those later.
I’m working on the book cover now, and it is being worked Up, and Up, from the seed of its idea and gods willing, will come together into an Image I will like and by the grace of even more godly consideration, will be painted decently as well.
And the new, possible deadline for the print book’s release? March 2011. The digital version however, I am thinking about having available sooner.
At least the online path to digital publishing is the shorter distance between two points: Me, to You.
Have a great rest of the week. If you are planning on San Diego, good luck to all vendors/exhibitors/artists, and if you are going because it makes you happy and spend money, then by all means, support everyone who’s going to be there! Me, not sure if I will make a day trip, but I will think about it.
Best wishes, as I get from Here to There,
~~eeee!
…so please join me there if you like!: http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/202881.Elizabeth_Watasin
I like the interface, it’s just plain nice and comfortable. And it’s pretty Fun sharing the books I’ve read or am reading. Mr. Eric S. invited me years ago to experience Goodreads but I never had time to pay attention to the fact that yes, thanks to Charm School being published as a graphic novel, I was listed as an Author over there. So now I’ve claimed my page and can do nifty things with it! Woo Hoo!! Being officially published with an ISBN is a nice thing. Just like Facebook I can friend people there. I get a blog, a place to upload vids, and announce Appearances. Goodreads is the first place where I’ve officially announced, yes, I’ll be at Long Beach Comic-Con this OCT 2010. Whether a print book will be ready is another concern all together, if I don’t have something to Sell, I will definitely have stuff to give away. Table info will be shared when I know more!
I’ve been following other authors on their FBs and LJs but it seems more cool just to follow them on Goodreads. I don’t know why, maybe because it’s *all* about books? I’ve only been listing books I’ve read since a few weeks ago, so all the titles consist of mostly YA novels and design books. But now I’m thinking that if I didn’t particularly enjoy a book, it’s best to *not* list it at Goodreads. I’m not a critic or a reviewer, or an editor. I read to get some knowledge, hopefully some enjoyment, and to support other Writers.
So once my DSL becomes reliable again, I’ll resume getting my own book ready for the months ahead. You may wonder, what do I need the internet for in order to make a novel? I need this Virtual Reality for lots and lots of things. Like how am I going to claim my Author page over at Amazon without my amorphous, 00011100 world, this thing called the interwebs?
Thank goodness *I’m* still Real. I think.
OK, what else do I need to do before the connection dies again,
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