New Roundbottom: Faery Wintering Nests
Filed Under: My Writing, Photography
There’s a low-key new Roundbottom today detailing what faeries tend to do when it gets cold. Feel free to drop on by and tell us how your local species prepare for winter, if your world has one.
We’re running a sale until the end of the year, $5 off each membership kit, and large scale limited edition prints are now only $65 a piece. After shipping and printing and everything, I don’t make much on these, so order a whole bunch okay?
I am leaning right now towards wrapping Roundbottom up again for the time being at the end of the year. The real world is too scary right now for me to be able to concentrate on created and telling such mostly whimsical stories. That and I really need to find better ways of making money. Roundbottom is a losing project, sadly. If I sell more prints though, it’ll change my mind.
Roundbottom Memberships On Sale
Filed Under: Photography
The Roundbottom Foundation memberships (including a variety of things including a photonic print) are now on sale for $30 a piece. You can find out more about this great Holiday gift here.
I had a productive weekend photographically speaking. Some interesting photos pushing a new technique I’ve not really tried much before. Some say that HDR is a cheat and is no substitute for real photography, but I just consider it another tool in my possible toolbox.
I’ve been doing a lot of photography-related reading lately. I went to the library on Friday and spent a couple of hours looking for inspiration in the stacks. I didn’t really find anything, but on Saturday, we had to buy some Christmas presents for the nieces at Barnes & Noble and while there, I browsed a few more books. These were much enlightening.
The big thing I am focusing on right now is really truly learning how exposure works and how to control it. Most of my photos are not exposed correctly in camera. It seems pretty basic, I know, but this is my focus right now. I have to get the basics down before I can really advance my skills much further.
Dr. Roundbottom Limited Editon Prints Now $65
Filed Under: Photography
Hello, good people! Here’s the skinny. I’ve lowered the prices of my limited edition Dr. Roundbottom prints from $125 to $65 a piece. That’s a 16″x20″ print on high quality paper, suitable for framing, etc. Signed and numbered. Only 10 of each image available.
If you’re looking for a bargain on a membership kit, never fear. I have some stock I need to try to get rid of before the end of the year, so I’ll be offering a discount on membership kits for a subset of the images next week.
I’m thinking of opening a low-cost general prints store for my nature photography as well. Let me know if such a thing interests you and it might motivate me to actually do it.
Before the end of the year, I hope to hone down the pictures I have taken in the last several years to a tight portfolio of just the best work. Just in case National Geographic comes calling, hah hah!
Oh, and if you would be so kind as to share the word about my reduced prices, I would be grateful. Have a lovely evening, dear readers.
New Roundbottom: The Inkblot Spider…
Filed Under: My Writing, New Art Photo, Photography, Writing Process
…and her prey. This week, I wasn’t able to get to a decent podcast script, so I worked up an image I’ve had in the hopper for a while now. This week details the predations and some bio notes of a unique species of spider that feeds on moth pixies in Roundbottom’s world. Check out the Inkblot Spider and share your thoughts.
In other news, I am weighing a sale for my inventory of images that I have printed. I’m considering $30 memberships from now until the end of the year or until I run out of pre-printed stock, whichever comes first.
I’ll admit that I’m disappointed with my success regarding membership kits. I sold 9 kits, and I really appreciate those of you who bought them. Unfortunately, sales have dropped off entirely. I’m considering giving up entirely on limited editon prints and selling everything on the site for $20 a piece. Any thoughts?
It’s hard to keep at this so much when I feel like it’s not as popular as I want it to be. Traffic is low, sales are nonexistent. I know what you’re thinking–do it because you enjoy it, not to make money. Well, no. I’m sorry, but I’d like to make a living from my creative endeavours and I don’t think there’s anything wrong with that. I enjoy the project, but if there is not a large enough audience to justify my time and energy in the project, then I will have to move on to something else. I have a lot of faith in the general concept of the project, but I am increasingly certain that it won’t turn a profit at all. My best bet is probably to use all of it as background research and turn out a novel. Keep the site updating on a lower frequency and turn the whole thing into a good reason to publish the book (beyond it being really good or something).
I’ve been meaning to write a book for a number of years now. I started writing my first book attempt just before my father was diagnosed with cancer. I’ve given up on that book along wth most of of my writing. But the truth is that I haven’t been able to let go of that creative urge, that drive to make something that matters, even if it only matters in the form of fleeting entertainment.
But even though I’ve given up so much, I haven’t been able to give up on Roundbottom. Maybe it’s because the character is a thinly disguised version of what I wanted to be once upon a time. I don’t know. But I want to keep trying to make something of this in some form, even if it’s not the website and the weekly updates. I just don’t know exactly what the best use of my time would be. Look, I have student loans that would make you wince. I may never be out of debt in my adult life without developing some sort of alternative revenue stream to accelerate my payoff. I’m trying to buy my freedom here. If this doesn’t work, I’ll find something else to sell, and I’ll keep trying until something comes out of my gourd. Because I want my freedom so bad I can taste it, and right now, these projects are the best thing I have to accelerate my earning that.
