It's Been An Exciting Year!
Author Sarah Scheele saying hello again.
A lot happened to my writing platform this year, including a new private email domain (which I am sending from right now to all of you getting this blog through email subscription); a restructured website; a second mailing list specifically for reviewers; more printed promotional materials than I've ever had in my life before; improved book descriptions; and that's not all. I realized I needed new author photos so we pulled out the old camera. This was long-overdue--we hadn't used it since the wedding of one of my sisters 7 years ago. Now I've got new pics to display random places online.
Then I saw a wallpaper template and thought one day—”If I wanted an image for my phone screen, what would I feel inclined to download?”—and it really grew from there. My youngest sister and I worked together to design over 230 wallpapers. (It's great to have 2 sets of eyes to catch all the details.) It's creative work, in a way, as you're telling a tiny story about your book with an image, but it helped me explore different angles of my books in ways I hadn't thought about. Some were super-simple, just a basic template and some large text. Some were elaborate, with many layers and blended elements to get right. Some had to be downloaded, tested, and then redone because words went off the screen in an annoying way--but sometimes words bleeding off the edge looked stylistically perfect.
I will be releasing these gradually during next year, but I'm still deciding how to do so. I am currently working on desktop wallpapers to match them. Meanwhile, I followed through on a years-old plan to dabble in video--short animation slideshows set to music. Click below to see one such tiny animation about the first series listed on my website—The Americana Trilogy. This video is So Severely Short that it is barely there at all, but it's just to introduce audiovisual as an element in my author toolkit. Watch a Short Animated Video on My YouTube Channel
I plan to post more frequently, like every 3 months. I used to vary between So Frequent People Got Bored or So Rarely People Forgot Me. So I am really grateful to all of you who are still here after that. Reply to this email if you want to catch me up on how you've been, or you can comment on the blog.
And there will be more updates.
A lot happened to my writing platform this year, including a new private email domain (which I am sending from right now to all of you getting this blog through email subscription); a restructured website; a second mailing list specifically for reviewers; more printed promotional materials than I've ever had in my life before; improved book descriptions; and that's not all. I realized I needed new author photos so we pulled out the old camera. This was long-overdue--we hadn't used it since the wedding of one of my sisters 7 years ago. Now I've got new pics to display random places online.
Then I saw a wallpaper template and thought one day—”If I wanted an image for my phone screen, what would I feel inclined to download?”—and it really grew from there. My youngest sister and I worked together to design over 230 wallpapers. (It's great to have 2 sets of eyes to catch all the details.) It's creative work, in a way, as you're telling a tiny story about your book with an image, but it helped me explore different angles of my books in ways I hadn't thought about. Some were super-simple, just a basic template and some large text. Some were elaborate, with many layers and blended elements to get right. Some had to be downloaded, tested, and then redone because words went off the screen in an annoying way--but sometimes words bleeding off the edge looked stylistically perfect.
I will be releasing these gradually during next year, but I'm still deciding how to do so. I am currently working on desktop wallpapers to match them. Meanwhile, I followed through on a years-old plan to dabble in video--short animation slideshows set to music. Click below to see one such tiny animation about the first series listed on my website—The Americana Trilogy. This video is So Severely Short that it is barely there at all, but it's just to introduce audiovisual as an element in my author toolkit. Watch a Short Animated Video on My YouTube Channel
I plan to post more frequently, like every 3 months. I used to vary between So Frequent People Got Bored or So Rarely People Forgot Me. So I am really grateful to all of you who are still here after that. Reply to this email if you want to catch me up on how you've been, or you can comment on the blog.
And there will be more updates.
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