Electrolicious

I have two Halloween costumes this year, one where I match my book readers, and one where I match my dog:

My very first book royalty check on its way! (Can you believe it’s taken this long? That’s what happens when you write for a niche market, apparently.) Interestingly, I’ve made more from the last month of advertising on offbeatbride.com than I have in the last six months of sales from Offbeat Bride: Taffeta-Free Alternatives for Independent Brides.

It’s just so funny: you hear a lot about people starting blogs hoping to get book deals. I got a book deal, started a blog to support the book, and am now finding the blog way more lucrative than the book. For me, the book led to the blog — not the other way around.

Of course this is an overly simplistic way of looking at things: electrolicious led to the book deal which led to offbeatbride.com which fuels more book sales etc. But when people asking me if I’m working on another book, I look at my royalty check and I look at my ad sales and I smile and say, “Nope!”

I don’t doubt I have more books in me, but at this point I’m not totally sure that I wouldn’t self-publish. Honestly, the only reason NOT to self-publish is that I worry that it would somehow look like I couldn’t get a publisher. This means it’s more an issue of pride more than money, because I’m pretty confident I’d make more money from self-publishing … at least, assuming I wrote another niche book, and I do love my niches!

But whatever: no books in the works from me right now. I’m happy puttering away on offbeatbride.com, getting my fix of subcultures and fashion and photography and feminism and all that good stuff.

… the 29-year-old male flower girl

Offbeat Bride got Boing Boinged!