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This Review Tho’

15 Wednesday Mar 2017

Posted by emilypageart in art, blog, book, dementia, family, Fractured Memories, gratitude, humor, karma, painting, Uncategorized

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Alzheimer's, Beyonce, book, book campaign, book promotion, book review, Christmas day, dementia, dementia care, Emily Page, Emily Page Art, Emily Page author, FLD, Fractured Memories, frontal lobe dementia, frontotemporal dementia, FTD, Gideon's bible, marketing, Monet, promoting, publish my book, signature

My first order of books arrived today!! So now my living room looks like this:

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As I start to empty the boxes, the cats are becoming ecstatic. They’re convinced it’s Christmas day. So. Many. Boxes. They keep hopping from one to the next.

I’ll be spending the next couple days signing books and preparing to ship out all of the pre-ordered ones. It’s a daunting but exciting task. Especially because I don’t really have a “signature” yet. I mean, I don’t want to sign the way I’d sign a document. My signature on paintings takes too long. So now I have to come up with a new one. Perhaps I should just sign them all with Monet’s signature. That’s legal, right? Think it’d boost my sales? Or maybe I should sign them with Beyonce’s signature – Beyonce the singer, not Beyonce the giant metal chicken (that’s just chicken scratch).

Seriously though. I just got my second review – again from someone I don’t even know. For some reason not knowing them makes me even more giddy because they’re not obligated to say nice things about me. I might have to change my name to Giddy-on. And we can all refer to Fractured Memories as Giddy-on’s Bible. We can put one in every hotel room! Thank you to Book Nation by Jen for a fantastic review. It’s so generous! Click here to read it, then take some time to read some other reviews on her site and maybe find more great books to pick up!

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Thanks so much for reading my ridiculous thoughts! If you’d like to see my ridiculous thoughts translated into art, visit my website, or follow me on Facebook and Twitter. Know a caregiver, or someone with dementia, or someone who knows someone with dementia, or someone who knows someone who knows someone else who’s a caregiver? Or heck, do you know a person? Well, you should tell them about my book, Fractured Memories: Because Demented People Need Love, Too. Part memoir and part coffee table art book, I recount my family’s heartbreaking and hilarious journey through my father’s dementia. Available to purchase here (this is my favorite way if you live in the U.S.), here or here if you’d rather get the eBook than a print copy, and here (especially if you want a hard cover copy).

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A Story About Publishing a Story

28 Tuesday Feb 2017

Posted by emilypageart in book, dementia, Fractured Memories, Uncategorized, writing

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author Emily Page, Blurb, Blurb.com, book, book campaign, BookFuel, BookFuel.com, Emily Page Art, Fractured Memories, Nick Page, publish my book, publishing mistakes, Publishizer, Publishizer.com, Raleigh artist, Raleigh author, self publish, self-publishing

This is a story about writing and publishing a story. The first thing you should know is that it miiiiight have been a mistake to self-publish, but then again, it might not. I will say that I regret a couple things, and in hopes that I can save other authors some heartache, I’m going to share the mistakes I’ve made (so far, because let’s be honest, I’m going to make more of them).

Thing one that I regret: I opted to run a crowdfunding campaign through Publishizer instead of through Indiegogo or Kickstarter. I went into it not realizing that Publishizer would take a way bigger cut of the money I raised than those other sites do. I also thought that they would be hooking me up with legitimate publishers. Not the case. They just pitch your idea mostly to vanity publishers, who don’t really need to be pitched. Vanity publishers just want to get paid to publish your book. So not really helpful there, and certainly not worth an extra 20% of the money I raised. There were a couple of actual publishers that approached me, and perhaps I should have considered them more, but I’d heard some horror stories of authors making no money because of poorly managed book launches. And I’d done so well with pre-orders, I decided it was worth my time and effort to promote my own work and not rely on someone else. We’ll see how that works out soon.

Thing two that I regret: the publisher I chose. After speaking to several, I went with BookFuel. Bad idea. Right from the start things started to go wrong. They wouldn’t lay out the book the way I had envisioned. Every step took infinitely longer than it should have. I’d complete a step and send it off to my account manager, then wait a few weeks. I’d finally reach out to check on the status and each and every time it would have magically “just come back” from whatever department it had been in. What a coincidence. Every. Single. Time. And the kicker was that, when I received my sample copies (which were both really low quality), they had changed the formatting from the approved manuscript and eliminated the strike-throughs I’d included. So sentences that should have read something like, “He had raised me not to cry, though I was a giant ball of weepiness considerably less skilled at suppressing my tears,” now read, “He had raised me not to cry, though I was a giant ball of weepiness considerably less skilled at suppressing my tears.” When I alerted them to it, they wanted to charge me to fix it. And the blasted thing is still available on Amazon, even though I’ve asked them to take it down.

So yeah, not happy with BookFuel. I’m still in the process of negotiating with them to terminate our agreement, and hopefully that will be resolved soon. But it’s been an expensive lesson.

All of that being said, I found another company to print my book, and so far am pretty happy with them. With Blurb, I’ve had total control over the layout, the print quality is higher, and it costs me less per book when I buy in bulk. The only down side is that the print-on-demand books (i.e., through Amazon), are more expensive than they would have been through BookFuel so I earn less money when people purchase that way.

So now, without further ado, I’m pleased to announce that the book is finally available for purchase!! There are several ways you can buy:

  1. You can buy the paperback directly from me here. This is my most favoritestest way, because I make the most money on each book and you’ll save a few dollars.
  2. You can buy the hardcover and paperback versions on Amazon here. If you want a hardcover, this is currently your only option. Please note that the first version with the formatting errors is likely still going to show, so to get the right one, you’ll be looking for the one that offers the hardcover for $39.95 and the softcover for $29.95.
  3. You can buy the eBook here and here.

Once you’ve had a chance to read it, and if you liked it, pleeeeeease consider leaving a review on Amazon or GoodReads (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34408526-fractured-memories?from_search=true)or your own blog/social media. And then tell everyone you know!

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It’s Almost Book Time, Y’All

05 Monday Dec 2016

Posted by emilypageart in art, dementia, Fractured Memories, painting, Uncategorized

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Several people have expressed an interest in purchasing my new book as a holiday gift. It’s part coffee table art book and part memoir, and it’s full of ridiculousness and love. I’ve been pushing the publisher to get it out in time, but they’ve been frustratingly slow with everything and are anticipating a release date in January. So, I’m offering the book for PREORDER on my own website. When you order, I’ll email you a nice little mock-up of the cover for you to print out and put in a card. You can order your copy at http://shop.emilypageart.com/products/fractured-memories.

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Piano Pedals

14 Wednesday Sep 2016

Posted by emilypageart in art, family, Fractured Memories, music, painting, Uncategorized

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art, artist, book campaign, Emily Page, Emily Page Art, Fractured Memories, oil on board, oil painting, paint, painting, Publishizer, Raleigh artist

As most of you know, I’m publishing a book, and in order to fund it, I ran a Publishizer.com campaign taking pre-orders and offering rewards and perks for those pre-orders. One of the perks offered was a painting…of course. Just finished up one of those paintings yesterday afternoon:

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Piano Pedals 9″ x 12″ oil on board

Thank you again to Chris and Carole Page for your generosity and support. Can’t wait to deliver your new artwork!

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The Book Campaign Is Officially Over

30 Saturday Apr 2016

Posted by emilypageart in Fractured Memories, Uncategorized

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The book campaign is officially over! Thank you so so so SO SO SO much to everyone who ordered. We sold 548 copies of the book. Now begins the hard work of actually sitting down to finish the book.Your support will carry me through when it gets tough. So thank you, thank you, and thank you again.

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Last Day of the Book Campaign

30 Saturday Apr 2016

Posted by emilypageart in dementia, family, Fractured Memories, gratitude, Uncategorized

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Last day for the book campaign! Only 9 hours left. Thank you to everyone who has pre-ordered. You’re the light in my life, the butter on my bread, the bourbon in my glass. For anyone who doesn’t know what I’m talking about, I’m taking pre-orders for the book I’m writing about my family’s journey through dementia. It will cover all the hilarious and horrible things we experienced following my dad’s diagnosis, and will include over 35 paintings I’ve done on the subject, as well. You can order your copy for as little as $7. The more orders I get, the more seriously publishers will take me – and this site works directly with publishers, so it’s a big deal that it’s performing well. If an order isn’t in the budget, you can still help by sharing the link on your own social media pages. I need help spreading the word! You can read the full book proposal and place your order athttps://publishizer.com/fractured-memories/.

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There’s No Crying in Baseball…Or Writing?

20 Wednesday Apr 2016

Posted by emilypageart in art, death, dementia, Fractured Memories, gratitude, Uncategorized, writing

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book, book campaign, dad, father, FLD, Fractured Memories, frontal lobe dementia, frontotemporal dementia, FTD, publish my book, Publishizer

I’m down a finger as I type this because I have a blood blister on the tip of my ring finger from framing a painting today. Try typing without using that finger. I double dog dare you. It’s rough. Do you see how I suffer for my art?!!! But I’m fighting through the pain (which really barely hurts but with which I plan to milk sympathy out of my husband when he gets home tonight) because I have to let you know that I’m 10 pre-orders away from hitting the 500 mark. Fer rillz. I was so worried that I wouldn’t even be able to hit the 250 mark, and we busted right through that goal in about 3 days. I could cry, but I won’t, because apparently when I start I don’t stop. On Monday, I watched Grey’s Anatomy and started crying. Then I kept crying through 2 episodes of Dance Mom’s. And kept crying while I fixed dinner and checked some emails. I’m not even kidding, you guys, I cried for almost 4 hours and I didn’t even know why. I cried so long I got dehydrated and basically had a hangover the next day. So I have resolved not to cry for the next several days. If I’m going to have a hangover, it should be from too much bourbon, not too much crying. But the real point of all of that was to say thank you to everyone who has pre-ordered the book and/or shared the link to the campaign on their own blogs and other social media pages. You’re helping me make a pile of shit into lemonade (the spiked kind). You make a girl feel loved.

For anyone stumbling across the blog over the next few days who doesn’t know what I’m talking about, you can read my book proposal at https://publishizer.com/fractured-memories/. Then order a copy and tell your friends!

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