So much to do and so little time. I’ve been working on more rings and other jewellery for Seadrake Creations. My photography has certainly improved, but I’m still struggling to be seen and found on etsy (http://www.etsy.com/shop/SeadrakeCreations?ref=si_shop) as there are so many millions of people selling there. I do very well at the craft fairs, so this year, I’ll be looking for more fairs to sell at.
I loved doing the bat ring for
Berni. She’s going to wear it to the
next Dracula Society meeting – a perfect setting for such a goth ring. Other jewellery projects have been doing more
rings, working with traditional sterling bezels (look at the etsy moonstone
ring which blends fine silver with sterling https://www.etsy.com/listing/120699333/beautiful-6mm-moonstone-in-fine-silver). My wax ring is looking beautiful with celtic
spiral and trinity knots, but it’s too expensive to have cast just now. I’ll
have to wait until I’ve sold more work.
As for writing… I suppose I needed a break. I’ve not written anything new for knowonder
save for the forward to the next anthology coming out soon. The ideas seem to be bottlenecked in my head
but come out as dark teen fiction – probably because I’m still editing my YA
16+ fantasy book, Downtrodden. Blood
Tide was swept up in the free offers after Christmas – over 400 readers
downloaded the book internationally in three days, but only one person left a
review. Thankfully, it was a five star
review, and that did make my day. After
years of toil, research and rewrites, it has come to pretty much nothing. Yet
I’m happy I wrote it. It is, in my
opinion, my best work – something that I may never top, which is a scary
thought.
The days are passed wondering what else I can do to promote
my work. There is always more to be
done, but there is danger in just throwing out cash for google-ads only to find
your time and efforts would have been better off spent on something else. So what on earth to do next? I really want to get this fantasy edited,
dusted and kindled. A wonderfully
supportive fellow author has shown me the path to Smashwords – an online resource
that allows authors and publishers to upload to most retail outlets for little
to no cost. So I suppose I’ll continue
to slog forward, blinded by the icy headwinds, recklessly delusional in the
hope that someday, someone will pick up my work and hand it to someone who
might send me a good contract.
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