Footers and website things
23 September 2023 11:08 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sister_raphaelI've needed to make a new footer for posts on my Author blog page for the new Medieval Wisdom for Modern Women book, so I did that today keeping in with the general pink theme.
And I've needed to update the other footer to add in the new book at the bottom and add a link to the website for ordering. So that's done too now.
The pre-book things continue getting all the things done for promotions... stickers to go on delivery boxes, new business cards with the cover on, a cute set of promotional bookmarks and a couple of coffee mugs for prize pack giveaways. At this point, it's all Australian posting. I looked into an Amazon release as well but to sell soft covers as actual books, I need to pay them to print them, which is essentially what I'm doing now here in Brisbane.o unless they get picked up by an actual publisher overseas, they'll not be going outside of Australia due to the horrendous postage pricing.
The Rosalie's Medieval Woman Online Shop is in place, upgraded from the other book shopping page, but there's no actual cart yet. People will need to email me with their order and use the PaypalMe function that Paypal has where I request a payment, so much like an invoice. It's better than nothing, and cheaper than an e-commerce business package or Etsy shop because I really don't think I'm going to sell huge quantities. Local bookshops, the museum shop and places which stock my other book are my main sellers anyway, so I feel it's not the end of the world. My son, who is in IT is checking out drop in webshops for me and we may have an affordable solution there. Maybe I need to re-look at Etsy but I think there are monthly fees which may outstrip what I make.
Anyway, busy weekend of getting things ready and getting promotional emails out ready for books to arrive, so they can go into shop Xmas catalogues as sweet little stocking fillers.
Wish me luck!
And I've needed to update the other footer to add in the new book at the bottom and add a link to the website for ordering. So that's done too now.
The pre-book things continue getting all the things done for promotions... stickers to go on delivery boxes, new business cards with the cover on, a cute set of promotional bookmarks and a couple of coffee mugs for prize pack giveaways. At this point, it's all Australian posting. I looked into an Amazon release as well but to sell soft covers as actual books, I need to pay them to print them, which is essentially what I'm doing now here in Brisbane.o unless they get picked up by an actual publisher overseas, they'll not be going outside of Australia due to the horrendous postage pricing.
The Rosalie's Medieval Woman Online Shop is in place, upgraded from the other book shopping page, but there's no actual cart yet. People will need to email me with their order and use the PaypalMe function that Paypal has where I request a payment, so much like an invoice. It's better than nothing, and cheaper than an e-commerce business package or Etsy shop because I really don't think I'm going to sell huge quantities. Local bookshops, the museum shop and places which stock my other book are my main sellers anyway, so I feel it's not the end of the world. My son, who is in IT is checking out drop in webshops for me and we may have an affordable solution there. Maybe I need to re-look at Etsy but I think there are monthly fees which may outstrip what I make.
Anyway, busy weekend of getting things ready and getting promotional emails out ready for books to arrive, so they can go into shop Xmas catalogues as sweet little stocking fillers.
Wish me luck!
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Date: 23 September 2023 09:43 am (UTC)