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A couple ((possibly incoherent)) notes about Foxhole Court paperbacks:

so I was going to ask the younger sis ((who drew the cover mascots in the first place)) to help me with cover alignment while she was here over christmas break, but then a lot of things happened and I never got around to it

I think part of the continued delay is a self-defeating mindset, because I hate the idea of using Amazon as a middle-man. The plus of using Amazon for print on demand is a) the potential for more customers and b) they handle all the costs and shipping. The downside is that Amazon keeps stacking on extra charges for distribution and such, and the books would end up costing between $12-$14 depending on which book it was just to break even on production costs.

What I’d originally wanted for the books way back when, but what always seemed impossible, was to use a smaller self-publisher and to order a stack of each book sent to me. Then I could sell them myself to any interested parties and handle the shipping on my end, which meant I could leave cheesy notes or shitty fox drawings inside the covers, etc, etc, and it felt more.. personal? the way the fox stories were supposed to be personal. Also I think the books could’ve been cheaper, like $8-10 or something a book ((I have the numbers around here somewhere, I just can’t remember what computer they’re on))

The eternal downside was that I needed a credit card that would allow a $3000+ charge to it and that I’d have to be able to pay that back somehow via sales, and 18 people and a cardboard dog weren’t going to be enough.

Now that more people are reading the books, if I thought I could ever sell enough paperbacks, it might be a viable plan again. It’d save ya’ll some money and give me the connection I thought the books should’ve had. ((though it’d also require some trust because people would have to be willing to send money and RL addresses to me versus an established corporation like Amazon))

Anyway end ramble, I should probably not drink and tumblr but there you go, there’s the update and the ongoing emotional conflict re: printed foxes

Dec. 28 2015
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