We got another customer review on Amazon.com. That makes four! And as far as I know, none are from friends I put up to it! I've heard that Amazon customer reviews really make a difference so it's a thrill to have gotten four already. This one was really positive, although it had an odd factual error: they said that most of the art came from Victorian postcards and greeting cards, occasionally from newspaper illustrations.
I'm not sure where they got that from, since we didn't use any postcard art & I'm pretty sure I didn't mention postcards or greeting cards in the card. Actually almost all the art is from newspaper illustrations. I'm no serious reseacher of Victorian postcards, but I've never seen one with a black and white engraving like I use in my collage. They seem to generally have a sort of frilly, softly-colored art that isn't really my style.
Although, I do have a box of Victorian greeting cards and related ephemera that my mother gave me, which includes these freaky advertisements for pickles, consisting of life-sized cardboard pickles with little girls' heads on the ends of the pickles. (Or something like that. It's been a while since I looked at those old pickles.) Those would be fun to work into a collage someday, just because they're so weird.
Anyway. I was talking about the Amazon.com review, not Victorian pickle ads. It was a very generous review so I can't really complain about the mistaken information about my source material. In other Amazon.com news, someone put us in their "listmania" list! How cool!
And I've noticed them playing around with the "Great Buy" offer where they encourage people to buy VRT with another related title. Mostly they've been pairing it with Mary K. Greer's book on reversals, and Poppy Palin's Waking the Wild Spirit Tarot. The great thing is that sometimes they also show VRT on those other titles' pages.
I bought that book 1001 Ways to Market Your Books and read some of it over the trip, but I don't think it's going to be much use to me. The cover says it's for authors and publishers, but it's really for publishers and self-published authors, with a little bit of advice for authors. And most of the tips for authors aren't useful to me because of the nature of the title & the genre. I'm going to see if Amazon will take it back (luckily I didn't crease the cover) and try and find a book that's more geared towards authors.
Finally, there's been a discussion on the Aeclectic forums about VRT. One person actually said she bought a couple of books from our bibliography! That's really ... wow. I can't imagine higher praise for the book.
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