Tales of humour, whimsy and courgettes
“No,” said Snake, “I mean restaurants for the Little Fears.”
“Ah,” said Fuen, “I have experience there.”
“Oh really?” asked Snake.
“Yep,” replied Fuen. “I had a bread bar that served crumbled bread to ghost ducks.”
“That’s the one that burnt down right?” asked Snake.
“Yeah,” said Fuen. “My business was toast.”
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Original photo available on Unsplash. Doodle and tale by Peter Edwards with his Posca Pens.
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“Man I hate these hospital visits,” sighed Spectre.
“Why is Red here anyway?” asked Sprite.
“He ate a jar of copper coins yesterday,” sighed Spectre.
“Ah,” said Sprite. “How is he today?”
“No change yet,” smirked Spectre.
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“Bloody Owl,” said Globe.
“What’s up?” asked Magpie.
“That chuffing Owl, landed on me, crapped on me, pecked me, regurgitated bones on me then threatened to feed me to his chicks, for no darned reason.”
“Huh,” said Magpie. “Maybe he has irritable owl syndrome?”
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“You know you have a problem right?” asked Flower.
“I know,” sighed Stem, “I can’t help it!”
Stem downed her third whisky. “Every single time I drive past that field of cows I just cannot help myself. I have to yell abuse at them.”
“Have you ever considered the notion,” began Flower, “that you might be dairy intolerant?”
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Original photo credit Benjamin Bousquet, available on Unsplash. Doodle and tale by Peter Edwards with his Posca Pens.
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“Nah,” said Tulip, “I’m British.”
“Oh nice,” said Herb. “So you like James Bond films?”
“Oh yeah,” said Tulip. “You know I once saw Max Zorin from a View to a Kill, walking down Oxford Street at Christmas to turn on the London Christmas lights!”
“Nice,” said Herb.
“Yeah,” sighed Tulip. “Was a Walken in a winter wonderland.”
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Original photo credit Ahmed Saffu, available on Unsplash. Doodle and tale by Peter Edwards with his Posca Pens.
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Coo that book came up looking pretty.
When I made and released January, it was under the thought process, release an ebook first as they can be changed easier at a later date. Changing a print book once they have been printed and are out in the wild is a twat. A couple of weeks after release the cover image was the only thing that needed changing and the original one was driving me mental. Above is the new cover, and it looks fitting and sexy to me.
I started working on the print edition last week. A PDF together, trying it on both Create Space and Amazon KDP, and both gave me a sales price of over £25. $33 was the cheapest I got it. Holy crap are kidding me? Why did it give me a value closer to £12 a month ago?
A few reasons, but mainly book shape and page numbers. With the print edition, if I get the book down to 100 pages, both image and text on a page, in a 6 x 9 format, I can sell the books for £15 each. That would make me £2.50 a book. Heck I need to make something right? But £15 for 100 flash fictions with my doodles. Not sure any one will go for that.
My book had a proper editor run through it. It has artworks and original flash fictions. Even if they are classic British groaners, they are still written in my unique style. Comparing my book to other books on Amazon a few weeks on, and I realize I am selling the digital copy far to cheap. £2.99, the same price as a 32 page USA style comic, from which I make 74p per sale. That price needs to go up.
So, for those thinking about buying the digital edition of the book. I will leave it at £2.99 until May. May 1st, the price will double. For those still interested in a print edition, I need to sort the formatting out and see how much more I can squeeze the price of this book down.
The process of self publishing has been quite a learning curve for me. I missed out on a lot of early promotion. I should have distributed some free copies to book bloggers. Made more of a song and dance about it before it came out, and acquired a few early reviews. Spent more time on the original cover. Most of all, I should have had more faith in my first book to sell. I was to cautious, nervous and concerned about it bombing somehow.
Onward and upwards. My spare time is currently going into creating another Skillshare course. A concise guide to being more productive, working from home. Because that in itself has been another huge learning curve for me since quitting my day job. I expect to make it free for the first 25 students, then make it premium. We do still have 2 free courses on Skillshare. My original ‘Build a following of 1000 WordPress subscribers a month‘ and ‘Growing a social Media following‘.
I shall put out the new course on a Wednesday, and announce it here first. Keep an eye out for it on Wednesday blog posts.
In other news, I have gotten back into doodling on standard paper again. Not printed photos. Wanted to get some new characters for my Threadless store. Funny thing, I had some success with Threadless in January and February, then I just sort of stopped using it. Don’t laugh, I make $5 per tee sold. That’s considerably more than I make from the January art book, and I have been dedicated far less time to it than the book. Go figure.
I am also doing the doodles for the 90 horror stories already written. I hope to get a feel for some new characters via simple doodles, then introduce them into photos as time goes on. I reckon the fella above looks suitably spooky for a horror short.
As always, thanks everyone for being an awesome rabble of readers. I hope you all enjoy the continued tales of the Little Fears.
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“I hate Crimbo!” said Plate.
“Why?” asked Serving.
“Season for all the facetious twats telling you to be happy!” replied Plate.
“Plate you don’t know what that word means,” replied Serving.
“Yeah I do!” said Plate, “twats mean fannies.”
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Original photo credit Fabrizio Magoni, available on Unsplash. Doodle and tale by Peter Edwards with his Posca Pens.
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“Where’d ya’ get that money and fancy webbing from?” asked Spider.
“Bit of work on the side,” replied Spider, winking and touching her nose.
“What sorta’ work?” asked Spider.
“Selling diaries for the year 2098 to the Mafia,” replied Spider.
“Oh,” said Spider. “That’s very organized crime.”
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Original photo credit Dmitri Popov, available on Unsplash. Doodle and tale by Peter Edwards with his Posca Pens.
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Reptile shifted his grip. “You know, I used to be so serene before I came here.”
Serpent eyebrow and asked “Why are you not serene anymore?”
“Mostly routine,” replied Reptile. “I used to meditate on Harry Houdini’s autobiography.”
“Why did you stop?” asked Serpent.
“Eh,” pondered Reptile. “The reason escapes me.”
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Original photo credit Benjamin Bousquet, available on Unsplash. Doodle and tale by Peter Edwards with his Posca Pens.
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“I don’t want to go to the dentist,” sulked Sprite.
“I love going to the dentist,” replied Spectre.
“Oh aye,” said Sprite. “Why’s that?”
Spectre shrugged. “It’s the only place I can go where people tell me to open my mouth and not close it.”
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Original photo credit Darius Anton, available on Unsplash. Doodle and tale by Peter Edwards with his Posca Pens.
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Little Fears 