Dear Barbara,
Two whole months of regular posting to this diary, and I'm starting to feel cocky. Look at me, I'm Ms. Web Log! I set up another one for my car, and I've started reading other online journals. I have visions of becoming one of those "blogger" people, who post daily, sometimes several times a day, revealing every detail of their lives to the adoring thousands (well, dozens at least).
But who am I kidding? It wasn't so long ago that I gave up on this thing for six months. I barely have time to manage the most basic tasks (do normal people have to schedule in shaving their legs?), how would I suddenly develop the energy and spare time for an obsessive online journal?
Still, I'm enamoured by the idea. I've been reading and admiring this one journal. She's funny, caustic, and somehow manages to write about herself on a personal level without revealing much. Then I came across this post. Man, what a blow. To have your life's dream realized and then ripped from you, not once but twice? I can't begin to imagine.
OK, enough about my delusions of web logging grandeur. In deck-related news, I got a nice email from a guy with a band called "Ace of Swords." He wants to license one of my images for promotional materials for his band. How cool is that? I told him to contact Hollie. I have to admit, I'm relieved that there's someone else to deal with usage requests, so I don't have to worry about finding out what usage is appropriate, what should I refuse, when should I charge and how much, etc. But then again I feel badly about about telling people "Great idea! I love it! You need to ask someone else!"
I got the printed proofs of the box and book cover in the mail. The small line of text (the one that credits Georg and me) is a little different on these proofs from the scans I got last week. Since we're concerned about the size of that text I asked for clarification on my "author comment form."
These proofs are actually not quite as good as the high res scans, a bit grainy in fact. They look to be color laser prints, or maybe color photocopies; they have a shiny look over heavy coverage that you don't get with color inkjets. Graininess or no grainiess, there's a thrill to holding the box cover in my hands and seeing my name right there in print.
I guess it's real now.
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