Merrellart

Revised the header for this site.  As I have shifted from the art of painting to the art of story, this header should give a clue to my website.  I’ve also redone headers for my other sites using this general theme of line drawings of characters.

The paintings or images I used on my various sites are all over the board.  It helps people who check the different sites to have the same images; then they aren’t wondering if they are on the right road.

Yikes!  I think my next baby step is creating a FB fan page — or rather the “public page” for those who are interested.  Researching the pros & cons of different features.  There seems to be a fine line between keeping an open policy which allows people to comment and get involved as opposed to creating an arena that is a free-for-all.

If worse comes to worse, one can always delete the whole page.

Recently reading information about one’s online presence.  This is about the actual “look” of one’s various online sites — FB, Twitter, website — photos, backgrounds, layouts.  While branding sound pretentious, that is what it is.  I looked at my various sites today and see where all can use renewing and updating.  They were created at different times with somewhat different purposes.  As I have grown and changed, these sites need the same to represent what I am now.

Must do something to expand the possibilities of this blog — like make it interesting!  Resolution for the new Year:  Write about the guts of my graphic work.  What is my process?  Where do my ideas originate?  How do I decide the form of the graphic work?  How do I interplay story, dialog, and drawings?

That has to be more interesting to others than problems with the presale settings on Smashwords and lack of response to my emails.

Smashwords recently instituted a presale method to extend the publication date of a book.  This gives the author time to network and otherwise spread the word to build sales.  All presale info for all books has disappeared since S-W revised the website.  While the presale section remains as an option during publication upload, it is not working.  One must contact “Support” at S-W to have this corrected.  After 2 emails, I’m awaiting a response.

ARTIST has been sampled seven times.  Research into sampling & sales shows 6 to 10 samples to make a sale. (Erotica sampling & sales ratio is much lower.  Surprise!)