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Little Fears, Big Update; Umber

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Well hello! Welcome to another Little Fears; big update! In this weeks post…

  1. Umber
  2. Hydra in Autumn
  3. Inktober
  4. Capricorn
  5. Patreon

Umber

The fine young lady as doodled for this weeks #Colour_Collective on Twatter. Pretty darned sexy if you ask me! I had in mind she was the Little Fears chief rat catcher, who isn’t very good at catching rats. That’s good because Yuffie would be peeved if Umber ate her friend Ratty!

Hydra in Autumn

Still very fears, but a slight departure in colour and style for this weeks new Threadless image. Hydra going for an Autumnal walk. Might make a good book cover for the next Little Fears book titled Seeking Hydra.

Hydra in Autumn is available from $12 from the Little Fears Threadless Store: https://littlefears.threadless.com/

Inktober


A quicky for Inktober, just wanted to show how my characters start out compared to how they end. This is, of course, Umber from the top of the post.

Capricorn

Self Publishing Earnings on Amazon

I keep getting told on social media this week I should write a book! Well, I have, three of them in fact. They are all available in print and digital from Amazon.com, with January and Spiders being funny tales and Capricorn a collection of my horror stories.

USA Editions: http://amzn.to/2frKA6e
UK Editions: http://amzn.to/2zTH64S

Patreon

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Well hello, I have some new and awesome Patreons this week!

Hello and thank you, ClutzyPanda. One half of the Miles and Crawford double act. She’s a resident of Twitter, @ClutzyPanda, and has a Patreon page herself.

Thank you, Daniel Cantu of danielcan2.com. You can say hello to @MisterCan2 on Twitter or nudge his Patreon page.

Do you want a shout out at the bottom of my weekly update posts? Head on over to Patreon and pledge $10 or more a month and not only will you help with Hydra’s feed bill, but you will also get that weekly shout out with a link back to your site. Hit me up on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/littlefears

 

 

Little Fears, Big Update; Seahorse

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Little Fears, Big Update; Seahorse

  1. Seahorse
  2. Sprite & Spectre
  3. Inktober
  4. Patreon

Seahorse

Yeah, she’s a nice character. She came from the Inktober character spam. I tidied her up and coloured her for this weeks #Colour_Collective on Twitter. I reckon she’s a future character for the Threadless store.

Sprite & Spectre

Speaking of Threadless, Sprite and Spectre have landed on our tees as a duo. They are my favourite pairing out all the Fears. They were never meant to be a bromance, but they work so darned well together in the stories!

Spectre & Sprite are available from $12.95 on the Little Fears Threadless store.

Linky: https://littlefears.threadless.com/

Inktober

Clouds were an Inktober theme a few days ago, would have been rude not too! Art print for next week too as well I reckon.


I have been trying out the Faber-Castell Artist Pitt pens I got for Inktober and spamming out new characters left right and centre. I have absolutely fallen for them. They shan’t replace my Poscas anytime soon for the daily tale doodles, but they have become my new go-to pen for doodling on white paper.They are also currently on sale on Amazon.co.uk

Amazon UK linky: http://amzn.to/2kXtq5O
Amazon USA linky: http://amzn.to/2yw7CRy

Patreon

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Do you want a shout out at the bottom of my weekly update posts? Head on over to Patreon and pledge $10 or more a month and not only will you help with Hydra’s feed bill, but you will also get that weekly shout out with a link back to your site. Hit me up on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/littlefears

Little Fears, Big Update: Wurm

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Here be a quick update for a fast week.

  1. Wurm
  2. Dwagons
  3. ItsOnCraft
  4. About the Fears
  5. Inktober, Witchtober & Goretober
  6. Creative Market Big Bundle
  7. Patreon

Wurm

Check her out, a wiggly wurm, in the fantasy sense of course. She’s one of my Inktober doodles made good for this week’s Colour Collective on Twitter. No backstory yet as she’s a fresher than fresh character. I quite like the look of her. She’s a keeper.

Dwagons

Another Inktober creature, but I adore her already. Give her a moonlit backing and shes a sexy dragon who’ll be coming back in the future. She’s available as an art print from $12 on my Threadless store.

Linky: https://littlefears.threadless.com/

 ItsOnCraft

I was fortunate to be featured on ItsOnCraft’s craft cards this week. Head on over to catch my 30-second bite of wisdom on honing your craft. Complete with a cheesy pun of course.

You can see my card here: https://itsoncraft.com/exposure-daily-short-stories/

Check out the daily niblets of creative advice here: https://itsoncraft.com/cards/deck/

About the Fears

little fears vulture

I haven’t had the link for the About page on this site visible, since the beginning, yet people always found it. So two weeks ago, I tidied it up, made it show up and forgot to turn comments off. Doh! Apologies if you commented, I have since cleaned off all comments from my about page. I like my info pages nice and clean.

I don’t know if it’s cause and effect, but since making it visible I have had a number of new SKillshare students, t-shirt and book sales. Interesting. The power of a good about page? How the smeg did it get over 900 likes?

Linky: https://littlefears.co.uk/fears/

Inktober, Witchtober & Goretober

Yep, still doing Inktober, Witchtober and Goretober. A collage of how this week has gone.

Inktober has provided me with new characters left, right and centre.

Lucy has continued her killing spree across the internet. Interestingly, Lucy’s campaign of death is the most popular of the four projects I have going this month. Does that say something about me or you lot?

Yuffie’s looking a little more consistent in hat shape and style for Witchtober, which was the idea. She’s having a wander about the internet with Hydra and Ratty.

Creative Market Big Bundle


You may have noticed a little banner at the bottom of my posts the last few days. They won’t be appearing every day, but if I see a product I like and I think you may find useful, I’ll be nobbling an affiliate banner for it.

Creative Market bundles are something me and the missus have been buying for the last couple of years. Every month they put together over $1000 of digital goods and sell it for $39. The goodies you get range from WordPress templates to fonts to photography to mockups. If any of you click the banner and nobble a bundle, I get a few cents. It won’t make me rich, but it may help towards a web hosting bill.

Linky for those interested: https://creativemarket.com/bundle/october-big-bundle-2017?u=sableyes

Patreon

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Do you want a shout out at the bottom of my weekly update posts? Head on over to Patreon and pledge $10 or more a month and not only will you help with Hydra’s feed bill, but you will also get that weekly shout out with a link back to your site. Hit me up on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/littlefears

While we are on Patreon, a quick shout out to my fantastic new Patreon supporter Barbara from letitgocoach.com A wonderful wee blog that offers food for the soul. Thanks again Barbara!

 

Competition time, win Lucy!

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Winning Lucy

This week I am giving away a copy of the nefarious Lucy. A sinister Little Fear, most known for her appearance in Capricorn. She is printed on 220gsm A4 matt card stock, 210 × 297mm. Our non-British friends are more than welcome to enter, though you may need to Amazon an A4 frame (or cut her to size).

How to enter

Share this post anywhere. Social media, blogs, forums and anywhere else on the net you fancy. Then leave a comment below linking to where you shared the post.

Finding a winner

On Sunday 8th of October, I shall pick a name at random from comments below using a spreadsheet.

Rules

Enter once anytime between now and Saturday 7th of October at 11:59 PM UK Time. You are limited to one entry. This contest is open to international residents. The contest winner will be posted on Monday, October 9th. If I am unable to contact the winner, the winner will have one week to email me via the Contact link at the top of the page.

Lucy’s a meany!

She is rather. Other Fears are available on my Threadless store in art print and tee form. Prints even come in American sizes. ~ littlefears.threadless.com

Competition Closed

It’s just past 11:59 PM, wandering on Sunday Morning. Comments have been turned off and a winner will be announced later today. Thank you to all the entrants and good luck!

Little Fears, Big Update; Pewter

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Whoosh, another busy week has whizzed by! But check it out, we have new things!

  1. Pewter Fear for Colour Collective
  2. Fuen & Lucy on Threadless
  3. Events, TellyTube & Socialization
  4. Social Media for Creatives (free course)

Pewter Fear

Pewter was originally doodled for a post-apocalyptic story (3 books away in the future, ack!). All the characters are named after different metals. Alas, Pewter didn’t make the cut. But this week’s Colour Collectives is Pewter Blue. Can’t think of a more appropriate character to use. I do think she looks like H.R. Giger’s Alien. Oops!

Lucy & Fuen on Threadless

Lucy has joined the ranks on Threadless on a new art print. She’s the devilish creature who appeared in Terminal and Balcony, two stories in the Little Fears horror anthology, Capricorn. 

Fuen makes another return. This is my all-time best-selling tee. Had to get the model mocks done and didn’t get everything perfect enough in time for the Threadless store relaunch last week.

Lucy’s art print prices start at $12 and Fuen is available in tee form from $12.95.

Threadless Store: https://littlefears.threadless.com
Little Fears presents: Capricorn: http://amzn.to/2xR59UH

Events, TellyTube & Socialization

In the coming months, I shall be joining in NaNoWriMo, Inktober and reprising my daily moustached funnies for Movember. If I continue to post everything on my WordPress blog, I am going to swamp it with up to five posts a day. That’s too much, obviously. But it’s not too much for social media. My Twitter, Instagram, Ello, Tumblr and Medium will take most of it.

I am also approaching a starting point in the current Fears tales where a plotline develops. It will make no sense later on if some of the characters meet. So I have stopped posting the old tales on the blog. The blog will start running as one continuous story five days a week for the Hydra storyline with odd unrelated Capricorn horror tales twice a week. I will still put up odd January and Spiders videos on YouTube and slot them into playlists.

You can follow me on social media and YouTube by clicking a link below or the wee icons at the top and bottom of my website.

Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheLittleFears
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/little.fears/
Medium: https://medium.com/@LittleFears
Ello: https://ello.co/littlefears
Tumblr: https://www.tumblr.com/blog/littlefearsdoodles
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5nQjw9JyaUYCkzY8qdK_ew

Social Media for Creatives (free course)

social media for creatives

While talking about social media, a Skillshare find I thought I’d share. Social media for creatives by Chelsea Matthews. It’s about an hour and a half long and gives a pretty good overview of how to use the main platforms for marketing as a creative. It’s 100% free. If you want a few tips on social media, just sign up to Skillshare, skip anything that asks you to pay, and give this course a watch through. Linky: http://skl.sh/2fa2eyo

Self Publishing: CreateSpace vs Amazon

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Self Publishing: CreateSpace vs Amazon

One more booky post for those thinking of self-publishing. My camera has broken, so apologies for the repeat pictures.

I’ve been asked on social media again, why do I use KDP and what’s the differences between KDP and CreateSpace. Both are self-publishing platforms where you control everything. Almost.

In my opinion, Createspace thrashes the heck out of KDP in almost every way. Caveat, I’m super niche, KDP is easier and works for me a lil better.

CreateSpace is awesome.

Createspace offer a 30-day Payout instead of 60-day payout for KDP.
Createspace offer distribution on more platforms than just Amazon.
Createspace offer distribution in a handful more countries.
Createspace offer wholesale author copies, so you can bulk order and sell at shows.
Createspace offer physical print proofs before you hit publish. KDP does not.
Createspace offer professional publishing services. KDP, you’re on your own.

KDP Ain’t bad.

KDP is easier to publish on.
KDP keeps you online and in stock all the time. Createspace takes you down when you update until they approve your copy. I have read this hurts your search rankings?
KDP offers Kindle Select lending library.
KDP offers Amazon specific promotions. Such as if you agree to only sell on Amazon for 90-day blocks you can run discounts and free offers. May help launching books, especially if it’s an ongoing series.

I use KDP

Personally, I found Createspace incredibly awesome in what it offers, but harder to use. In addition, I am expecting to release a new book every 1-2 months in the Little Fears series. Imagine losing your rankings every time you release a new book when you update the ‘Also by the same author’ in each book every 1-2 months. Mad. No. Not for me at that pace.

The KDP tools also help me get a big kick start with reviews. The free offers and Kindle Unlimited lending library in the first month knocked my recent book up to 10 reviews, 5 stars. Wasn’t intended, was hoping for one or two to be honest. That has a knock on getting the book noticed for its first month and is gathering sales momentum.

I have been told Createspace gives you better pay rates. Again, I think because of the super niche layout and nature of my books, I found Amazon give me better rates.

I do not know how good Createspaces editing services are as I never tried them. I would say any monkey can format a book right with the Kindle book creator tools for KDP.

I believe Createspace is the better platform but KDP suits my needs a lil better you know?

Shameless Self Promotion

Find this post helpful? Shimmy on over to my Amazon authors page where you can buy all three of my books in digital or paperback, January, Capricorn and Spiders.

USA: https://goo.gl/r64kH4

UK: http://amzn.to/2wAgZPr

Want to support the Little Fears so we can continue telling you new daily groaners and horrors? Hit me up on Patreon.

https://www.patreon.com/littlefears

Cheers

Rust – Featuring Characters!

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A brief update today. Part of my morning routine is to draw six tiles, write six tales, and create one new character. I have been doing this daily for four months, and holy snot bags do I have a lot of characters now in my rogues’ gallery.

Some characters will be going into future tales. I have an entire book written about seven metallic creatures. One of which is Rust. While I am not using her in tales, I reckon she makes a snappy chocolate orange shirt.

You can order her for $20 on Threadless here.

The first two paperback books (yes, plural) will be available shortly. I’ll elaborate more in the next post, as they are all still taking some dicking with. But a quick shout out to the divine Devina who’s been giving me a hand with Good Reads.

Finally, a quick series of character doodles I have piddled about with this week. Everyone always seems interested in other peoples creative process. Doodling characters and naming them is a huge part of mine.

Enjoy your weekend and doodle on!