Pretty Busy
I made a few minor changes to the site (lowered some prices); sent out a ton of catalogs to art buyers; and suddenly I am deluged with orders. Frankly, I’m planning on spending the next week printing to catch up. Odd, because usually this is the absolutely dead season for me. The one trend I see is that there are a lot of requests now for the larger prints (thank you 7800). My only issue with those is enough drying space.
Anyway, it’s not boring because I’m doing sepia, color and the usual b&w printing. So there’s a bit of new territory. And I get to see tons of things blown up to 23 x 36 now. Frankly, that is big. It takes up 3/4’s of my counter space where I lay the thing out to flatten and dry.
The Central Park book on the other hand, which I consider a great value (what do I know) has sold exactly two copies so far. Ironically - I’ve sold off a few images to “real” books about New York’s Parks.
Well, if I can’t sell that one at cost, the next one should be for die-hard fans only since it will be just people, and just the people I want. Working title… MORTAL NEW YORK (that one might stick). It’ll look good in Gothic font. I’m sort of figuring that since the books aren’t going to sell, at least not through the site, I might as well do the one I really want.