Tales of humour, whimsy and courgettes
It’s a month of Virgo! Our lady Virgo has now arrived on Threadless and for this week, she’ll have $3 off.
You can nobble both Virgo tees here: littlefears.threadless.com
And of course, she’s got a £3 discount on Etsy too. littlefears.etsy.com
Happy murder month, my strange and stabby Virgo friends!
Cheers to Bruce Campbell, Badger, Kathy & Warren for the continued $10 Patronage. You can find me on Ko Fi, Patreon, Etsy, Amazon, Skillshare and Threadless.
Fuen’s had a little too much coffee and with the jitters, she’s doing the java jive! Boing!
I’ve always been asked for a coffee version of the Drink Tea tee. But ‘Drink Coffee’ reads frickin’ awful. But man, when I’ve had too much coffee to drink, I do the java jive!
So, Fuen, coffee edition. Please do enjoy! (Linky: littlefears.threadless.com )
Alsoooooo, I left Leo the Lioness on sale both on Threadless and my Etsy store last week. I’ll be taking them both off sale and putting the price back up tomorrow. If you’d like the Etsy print or Threadless tee, grab them tonight. (Etsy link: etsy.com/uk/shop/LittleFears )
Cheers!
Cheers to Bruce Campbell, Badger, Kathy & Warren for the continued $10 Patronage. You can find me on Ko Fi, Patreon, Etsy, Amazon, Skillshare and Threadless.
Leos, it is, apparently, your month. Your time to shine. Your time to be the commanding, warm-hearted and loving grumpy cat we all know you are around your birthday.
So to alleviate some grumpiness, I have put up my Fear Cats tee on Threadless for sale (usually $20, currently $17). That’ll go nicely with the free-shipping code, FREESHIP7197cca8e.
Threadless link: littlefears.threadless.com
Also, if you want more Cat, I’ve dropped another £3 off the price of my Leo print on Etsy. She’s down to £9 with free global shipping.
Etsy: etsy.com/uk/shop/LittleFears
Now, stop being a sourpuss and celebrate the fact you’re a year closer to your imminent death.
Happy cat month, Leos!
Cheers to Kathy & Warren for the continued $10 Patronage. You can find me on Ko Fi, Patreon, Etsy, Amazon, Skillshare and Threadless.
Following Sprites story this week, we have a couple of new tees on the Threadless store along with another free shipping sale code. Use Code “FREESHIP6197cca8e” on checkout.
She’s available on t-shirts, hoodies, jumpers and vests from $15.
Little Fears on Threadless: littlefears.threadless.com
Cheers to Warren for the continued $10 Patronage. Want to support the Fears or nobble books, art and merch? Find me on Ko Fi, Patreon, Etsy, Amazon, Skillshare and Threadless.
The most terrifying thing about this tee is not the strange trend of Peter using motivational slogans, but that he’s used a font!
A bit of a cheat. The text was tiny and in my scribbled font, would be unreadable on any women with a cleavage about a B cup. So I resorted to using a nice font on the PC for it. I think it still looks on-trend for the Fears.
Be the odd one out is now available on my Threadless store. littlefears.threadless.com
Thanks to Warren for the continued $10 Patronage.
Ko-Fi | Patreon | Etsy | Books | Skillshare | Threadless
“Durthi was never entirely sure what was better for her plants’ health. The torrential rain followed by sunshine, or the blood soaked into the soil.”
These ebil flowers are available on Threadless today. On tees, tanks and hoodies. Linkage to the Fears on Threadless: littlefears.threadless.com Currently with free shipping, just copypasta the following code: FREESHIP4197cca8e
Thanks to Warren for the continued $10 Patronage.
Ko-Fi | Patreon | Etsy | Books | Skillshare | Threadless
WordPress needs to have a parent page for drop-down menus on the website. So we needed a new Shop & Tip Jar page. Following advice I was given long ago, ‘artist, market thyself!’ Main page link: littlefears.co.uk/shop
“You’re right,” replied Fluffeh, “we have multiple shopping outlets and experiences for our fans.”
“Multiple!” gasped Masks. “I know we might get accused of marketing if you answer this out loud, but where can I visit these Fear filled shops and experiences?”
“You can buy our books from Amazon“, said Fluffeh.
“Cool,” said Masks.
“We sell original art and art prints on our Etsy store,” said Fluffeh.
“Brillo,” said Masks.
“Folk can buy our t-shirts from Threadless,” continued Fluffeh.
“Oh, right,” gasped Masks.
“We teach on Skillshare,” claimed Fluffeh.
“Awesome,” grinned Masks.
“You can also hire the illustrator for writing or design work,” noted Fluffeh.
“Excellent,” gurned Masks. “What work can he do?”
“Well,” pondered Fluffeh, “a lot of things, but obvious examples would be designing posters, creating unique logos, writing articles or creating book covers.”
“How many more ways can the illustrator say “said”?” asked Masks.
“I don’t think we should test that,” replied Fluffeh.
“I guess not,” laughed Masks. “But listen, if there was a way of personally supporting the illustrator, how would I do that?”
“You can visit his Patreon or Ko-Fiand drop a dollar or two into his tip jar,” said Fluffeh.
“Do you think anyone’s going to read all this?” asked Masks.
“Probably not,” sighed Fluffeh. “But you know the illustrator. He ain’t writing a normal shop and tip jar page.”
“Innit tho,” chuckled Masks.
Ko-Fi | Patreon | Etsy | Kindle | Skillshare | Threadless
‘As the mayor’s skin turned to seed, he pleaded, one last time. The pigeon shaman ignored his cries. The flock arrived. Hungry.’
The pigeon shaman, the avian avenger, taking out her fury on the poor fella for his anti-pigeon measures. She’s also taking her Fears to both a Threadless and Etsy store near you!
Little Fears on Etsy: etsy.com/uk/shop/LittleFears
Little Fears on Threadless: littlefears.threadless.com
As she’s a new release, and I adore her, you can message me below or email me at fears@gmx.co.uk to get her A4 print for just £8 + P&P. Offer ends Saturday, June 9th.
You may also know that Seeking Hydras cover has returned to my Etsy store this week.
And do you know what? As I’m using up my entire year’s marketing quota in just one post, I’m also going to link to the book this image came from. Seeking Hydra.
Seeking Hydra is available on Amazon for £4.99 for an ebook or £12 in print. And gosh darn it, does it have a sexy cover. Feel free to judge.
Amazon link: amzn.to/2xu57T0
Ko-Fi | Patreon | Etsy | Kindle | Skillshare | Threadless
Today’s post is more a follow-up blog with some further useful ideas and tips for writers and artists on WordPress. Let’s start with a link to my first post, Selling on WordPress from two weeks ago.
Selling on WordPress – The original blog post
It turns out. I was right on the mark. Selling your own products is something that doesn’t come natively to most of the artists and writers that commented. In fact all of them now I’m reading over them… So, know that you’re not alone with your sales issues.
Priyankaspen asked how I embed affiliate links into my posts. I’ve discussed affiliate links before. The income you get from them is woeful. I’m lucky if I see $100 every three months. But I don’t ‘sell’ other peoples products on this website. I occasionally link to pens and paper. That’s about it (click for an example). If anybody clicks an Amazon affiliate link and buys anything from Amazon in that session, you get a few pennies. A word of caution here. We’ve spoken about affiliate links on blogs a few times. Nobody seems to mind odd links, but when you stuff a blog post with them, it’s like flicking a switch that pisses people off. If you stuff a blog post full of links, you might make a few pennies of the post, but you’re guaranteed to lose subscribers.
When you sign up to Amazon or any other affiliate network, you get short links to products. On Amazon.com when you’re signed in to affiliates, you get a bar across the top of each page. I always aim for a text link and embed the link in my post.
Copy the short link off of Amazon, highlight the text and right click, then copy. Go to your WordPress post and highlight the text you want to turn into a link. Click the link icon above. Paste the link into the empty box. That’s it, all done.
Janowrite asked about the icon set at the bottom of my posts. I create the icons myself in GIMP (free image editing software). I then embed the pictures the same way you would any image. Add content, Media, select an image, insert.
Then we add links the same we did with affiliate links. Select the image in the post, click insert link, copy paste in the link you want the image to go too. Handy if you want a book banner you’ve made yourself to link directly to your Amazon author page for example.
Forrest asked me about Patreon and tip-jars. Patreon is not for everyone. My tip jar is just a PayPal business link. Setting up a PayPal tip jar is frankly a pain in the arse and far more effort than it should have been.
One thing I do want to change too, though haven’t had time to look at yet is Ko-Fi. It’s a website you set up so people can support you for one-off tips to buy you coffee. Smart idea. Worth a look if you want a tip jar yourself.
Donna from DMStrachan.co.uk suggested that instead of adding sales announcements to weekly posts, I dedicate a post to new products. So that’s what I did… I’m still adding it to a weekly post… Doh.
But the focus of the post was far more into the new products. The result is, I had a few email enquiries and I sold three prints right off the bat. So I had some success. A dedicated sales post is better than burying new products. Sounds obvious, but we’re creators, writers and artists. We do have funny ideas about selling our own gear. I’ll get the new art prints on Etsy at full price this week. If anyone still wants a copy at £9 a print, please do drop me a message or email to fears@gmx.co.uk
Another follow up
I will be writing another follow-up blog post on this subject to discuss and link to ideas people had about real-world selling. Until then, looky, icons!
Ko-Fi | Patreon | Etsy | Kindle | Skillshare | Threadless
Holy crud-muffins we are nearly into March!
The eponymous dame returns as the lead lady for this weeks #Colour_Collective. Some link dropping here. You can see the original doodle of Screech in this post and I have a course on how to turn simple doodles into digital graphics assets, here.
My Etsy store has re-opened. I haven’t sorted out an on-site shop yet, it’s on the to-do list. As you know, slightly strapped for cash right now so I have spent a few days this week doing in-house work for companies I used to work for and doing a fair bit of job hunting. Have a nosey at my currently, sparse but growing, Etsy store.
Shop link: etsy.com/uk/shop/LittleFears
We’re back again this week, and Mel has chosen The Eye, a Korean film on YouTube for us to watch. Expect scary Asian ghosts and silliness. Come join us on Twitter for some fun, 9 pm UK time Saturday as we watch and tweet it. Hit me with an @ if you want to be added to the conversation.
For a read up on who the Movigos here, Alex made a Movigos post this week.
You can see my post from two weeks ago to see how we roll, here.
Come join us, it’s a bit of a laugh!
Little Fears 