That’s Closed Circle Bazaar
Let’s see if that works!
Closed Circle Bazaar is open at Closed Circle Bazaar
by CJ | Jul 25, 2010 | Journal | 13 comments
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This is much faster as it takes your directly to the Bazaar. However, I got there from Closed Circle by doing the following:
1.) Click on STORE
2.) Click on CAFE PRESS ANNEX
3.) Click on CLOSED CIRCLE BAZAAR header.
It looks TERRIFIC! 😀 😀 😀
So very cool.
SQUEEEEEEEEE!!!!
I couldn’t figure out how to get to the “BIZARRE” 😉 via CC > STORE. Thanks for the directions above, smartcat. I’ll have another run at it. Maybe it’s just me 😉
It’s a “closed circle” but it’s open. I’m confused……not really…..I like the T’n’T tees. (too many t’s?)
We apparently won’t get any sales reports for 60 days, which is kind of a bummer: we’d like to know what’s going on. Sort of like having a souffle in the oven and no window to see how it’s doing.
This is because they have a 30 day guarantee, they say. But, hey, we can imagine people are buying things.
Congrats CJ, you are one step closer to being completely self-sufficient. Guess this would be the literary equivalent of a farmer growing his own crops, harvesting them, and manning a roadside stand to sell them without much outside influence.
I really hope it takes off for you and the rest in Closed Circle.
Thinking ahead, do you have any plans to open this up to other authors that wish to publish? And if it really gets going. Do you think you might start filling non-electric orders by taking data in to a printer to make some soft bound copies when you get enough to make it worth your while?
Thanks, Xenophon. Right now all we can see our way clear to is getting ourselves set up: we three have lived together under one roof, down in Oklahoma, we know each other’s work ethic, and we have interlocking skills, which make it really easy. We know who to call on if something needs doing: we can also, due to years of living at close quarters, communicate without dancing around the situation, and we don’t have disputes. We still long for some paper capability, but we just can’t risk it yet. If we can get enough income, we’ll certainly consider the paper option, but thus far we’ve had to do this all on shareware and our homegrown effort: Cafe Press was an option because there is no capital outlay and no additional burden of mailorder shipping and records-keeping. What we will do is tell any other writer exactly how we do it, down to what software, and what sequence, and advise anybody trying what we do that they need several writers each with alternate skills like bookkeeping, cover art, and computer/internet skills—php and css are a real bonus.
Just wondering, I have my own limited literary ambitions. Currently, I am concentrating on just producing the best manuscript I can and improving myself as a writer. And not trying not put the cart before the horse as far as getting published, but I know I will have to come up with a plan eventually and really dread it.
Jane has had a look at the first 160 or so pages and gave me lots of encouragement. I hate the thought of going the long hard road and facing the many rejection letters that new authors inevitably receive. Especially, if they choose to write to a limited audience and go for a lasting work over a profitable one…
I have even contemplated breaking it apart and publishing the chapters as a serial. Like M. Moorecock did with the Elric series. Then hopefully having it republished in novel form. But I will cross that bridge when I come to it. Right now I just want to finish and produce the best quality writing I can.
Best thing is finish, and don’t even think of market while you’re writing: it’ll make you veer left and right when what you need to think about is your story. Then worry about it. Try New York: they’re crazy, but someone without a track record still has an even shot, in a market where they’re trying to disguise older writers as new people (idiots). If that doesn’t work after a couple of years of trying, start looking at something else, including Kindle: we dodge it, because they’re in it for them, and have many of the problems of NY publishing, but as an initial springboard it could be good. What you need is momentum, once you get ready to launch, and something like the Kindle market could be good for somebody trying to get name recognition.
I like the logo, but I hope you don’t have any trouble with the International Olympic people. They have been known to go after logos that uses any kind of interlocking rings. They took the makers of the CCG game “Legend Of The Five Rings” to court and made them change the logo that they had been using for several years, and really did not look anything like the Olympic logo.
a), we’re little, and b) we’re 4 rings. The one on the t-shirt isn’t a ring, it’s a border, and c) ours is from chainmail, a sort of event they don’t sponsor.
“Closed Circle Bazaar is open at Closed Circle Bazaar”
If ever “Closed Circle Bazaar is closed at Closed Circle Bazaar” …
…my head is going to explode. 😉
Lol! I did that so I could get a live link into the title…but it does sound a little stupid!