Nobody panic!

[ellenmillion]

Everything will be alright, if we just stay calm!!

Or so I tell myself...

Strange happenings with my paper/spray orders, including nothing charged to my card yet??? But I won't panic.

Still haven't ordered those darned ISBNS. But I won't panic.

INATS in just over a week!! I have to go to a strange big city. And do a HUGE show that I've never done before, trusting (hahahaha) UPS and the airlines to make sure I get all my stuff. But I won't panic.

I have a cubic meter of orders that I need to fill, art to send to InConJunction and stuff to make for INATS, none of which can happen until I get at least ONE of my new printers set up. Neither of which are here yet. But I won't panic.

My ftp connection keeps dropping while I'm trying to download print files for the Atlantis book. But I won't panic.

Of course, I have to completely compile, layout, design and upload this particular book by (about) July 1 - and round up all the signature pages (mostly in, thankfully) and print files before that point. Despite a full week of being gone smack in the middle of that time. And do a damn good job on this, because so many faithful, talented artists are trusting me to do so. But I won't panic.

And, like a fool, I also started a complicated submitted description I would have to finish before I leave. Oh, and my own final Atlantis piece... and hopefully that story. But I won't panic.

Wait... how am I NOT panicking?

Huh...

Anywho, I'm off to buy supplies to make fairy wings today with my mom! Which I also still have to design!

Still not panicking! Lalalalalalala! You can't make me!

Comments

[winterswitchery.livejournal.com]

*hands you a towel* don't panic!

[watercolorwitch.livejournal.com]

Hehe deep breaths...don't panic!

[baba-studio.livejournal.com]

You're going to INATs? Oh, please please will you look up SCB our distributors and see what they are doing with our stuff, please please? (they are nice guys and not that I don't trust them but they really haven't much of a clue what MBS even is).

Do you have a stall on your own, is it expensive? I do wonder if we wouldn't do better to pair up with someone next year rather than leaving it all to the distributors. But is it hideously expensive to do that?

Sorry - bombarding you. But you might also find SCB just nice to say Hi to - they are good distributors in spite of my moaning. If you do see them, (Gabriel is the person who will be there probably) of course please mention my name. Just say you know Karen and Alex in Prague - no-one can pronounce our last names!

[baba-studio.livejournal.com]

ps - and don't panic. But then again, I KNOW you won't :-)

[valdary.livejournal.com]

Don't forget to fit some eating and sleeping time into your busy schedule. Hope all goes well

[ellenmillion.livejournal.com]

Eating? Sleeping? Oh, I suppose... :P

[michellesart.livejournal.com]

Gee, you think you have enough to do? Anyway, I just want to thank you for taking on the book project, you're awesome!

[elfies.livejournal.com]

I just love ya girl :) you are my hero! :) ((((((((HUG)))))))

[baba-studio.livejournal.com]

So twelve times $270 is... eek, yes spendy indeed! Still, we have to pay the distributors quite a lot just to show our stuff and then we have absolutely no control over how they do it - and we get very little feedback too. So it might be better to find half a dozen other people and do our own thing next year. In theory by then we'll have quite a few publication, and some textiles.

I hope it all goes really well for you - I'm sure it will. And ANY feedback you can give would be great - it's hard for us to know what's going on when we are in a different continent.