No, that wasn’t my lunch order today, it was the decision I made about what to have at my book fair table.
Turns out, that’s a lot of product to make:
- ten of each of my novels
- ten big, medium, small, and tiny hardcovers
- ten cereal-box notebooks
- ten waterproof paper wallets
- ten perfect-binding presses
- ten perfect-binding press construction/instruction guides
- ten Quick-and-Dirty bookbinding guides
- plus a zillion magnetic bookmarks
Phew!
Some of these are fiddly to make, too, especially since I can’t justify charging much for them — like these teeny books I made yesterday and today:
The thing is, though, people really like the little books. They draw attention — which I figure will be even more important than usual if I’m down in London, where the crowd will presumably be a lot bigger and there’ll be a lot more vendors.
The economics of the micropress don’t work, I realise this. And “ten of everything” has been stressing me out. So my approach for today, when I’d finished my copywriting and had some spare time, was to just do the thing in front of me and enjoy it, rather than thinking about getting everything done at once (which, of course, does not work and throws my amygdala into lockdown mode).
As a result, I had a lot of fun doing these, and went slower, so the result is better.
You could swallow some of these books and not be harmed.
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