This is from an email I sent to a lovely lady from the ANZ Book awards a while ago. She gave me advice on book publishing. She then re-shared the post here.
Here is my email:
I don’t know if you remember me. I met you at the @ngvmelbourne art book fair. I was the guy who drew Melbourne coffee shops on Coffee cups…
I thought of sharing what I have been up to since you showed me so much positiveness thought it would be nice to share.
Quick recap I was trying to finish this book with my two little boys (one newborn) and a very supportive wife. I was also packing the house and getting ready to move into the USA for work, so the book is a love letter… now more than ever. So we are in the USA now.
Before coming here I was literally walking all over Melbourne with a market trolley and 25 books in it, selling the book by foot and many got sold to cafes, but it was only the cafes that I personally approach like this that bought the book. So sometimes I feel bad that I am no longer in Melbourne because I could have shared it even more…. I realized social media is never nearly as good as face to face.
Just before I left Australia and after a very little but heartwarming book launch in South Melbourne my book was received at Readings! That was amazing, I saw the book on the shelves just before flying.. so I’ve seen it once… and that was so amazing and humbling… a dream I had that I did not know I had.
Just recently Monsterthreads, the store that sells beautiful cool stuff near Centre Place at the CBD is selling my book too!... I am hoping tourists will pick it up there.
I am hoping I will also find inspiration here in the US to do the next project, maybe a children’s book!...
