Today will be my first book event outside of my comfortable little bubble of West Michigan. I'll be doing a reading/book signing at Tree Town Toys here in Ann Arbor at 11am (https://treetowntoys.com/).
I'm still having a blast with promoting and selling the book, but the fact that it consumes so much time that could otherwise be spent working on new creative pursuits is truly frustrating. I'd say that has been the biggest pitfall to self-publishing: lack of time to do new stuff. Aside from working on new book ideas, I'm also doing a large watercolor painting as a wedding gift for my sister and her soon-to-be husband. I REEEEEALLY need to finish it this week so I can get it scanned and framed in time for the July 16th wedding. I'm a counselor at a church camp all next week, so that puts an even bigger crunch on the whole project.
Oh well! Time to get serious, I guess. I'll paint for an hour before I have to start prepping for my event. Here we go...
I'm still having a blast with promoting and selling the book, but the fact that it consumes so much time that could otherwise be spent working on new creative pursuits is truly frustrating. I'd say that has been the biggest pitfall to self-publishing: lack of time to do new stuff. Aside from working on new book ideas, I'm also doing a large watercolor painting as a wedding gift for my sister and her soon-to-be husband. I REEEEEALLY need to finish it this week so I can get it scanned and framed in time for the July 16th wedding. I'm a counselor at a church camp all next week, so that puts an even bigger crunch on the whole project.
Oh well! Time to get serious, I guess. I'll paint for an hour before I have to start prepping for my event. Here we go...