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i love the style of this book it s very thought provoking i love the way it s laid out and how cleverly you ve used the book text in such an imaginative way a wonderful book i love the whole concept of snipped tales i have been eagerly awaiting this book and when it finally arrived it did not disappoint delightfully quirky absolutely fantastic such beautiful new stories made from old ones a little something for everyone loving these collaged treasure tales and my unique tag all beautifully done compliments about the look of the book my good friend and long time collaborator kirsty neale created the illustrations for the book and graeme at 6e publishing incorporated them into the kind of cover design i had in mind and really feel free to go ahead and judge the book by its cover because its outsides really are a good match for its insides i love this book for so many reasons beautifully printed and designed and lovely to flick through randomly couldn t resist sharing another shot of snippedtales just because it s so beautifully photogenic beautiful and intriguing i ve had it for half an hour and all i want to do is find a quiet corner to read it from cover to cover praise for the packaging when you buy a copy through my etsy shop each one comes gift wrapped complete with a one of a kind tag featuring a mini snipped tale just for you because i love the idea of making it feel like you re receiving a gift even if you re buying it for yourself this lovely book would make a great gift the packaging was almost too nice to open beautifully wrapped even the packaging was individual and very lovely love the personal touch of a snipped tale on a handmade tag beautifully packaged and personalised amazing packaging personal note welcomed i ordered three copies two as gifts for friends and all three arrived beautifully gift wrapped i hope you ll forgive me blowing my own trumpet here it s all just part of the job the next step in the process i spent time care and yes if we re not being coy about it money putting the book together and really do want as many people as possible to get hold of a copy and no it s not about the money truly i m not going to be buying that villa in florida my dad asks about or the bungalow my mam s been hinting at any time soon sorry about that when i was in the middle of the pricing print numbers meltdown i mentioned in my previous adventures in self publishing post james hero that he is made me stop and tell him the main reason why i wanted to publish the book and my answer was that i just wanted the right people to find the book to have it in their hands to share it with them a nd that still stands today there are some stories in there that will lift your spirits while others will tug your emotions keep you company or raise your eyebrows and hopefully posts like this will help someone new discover these eclectic little messages so they get to hold the physical book in their hands while letting the contents hold them in return julie x next week 30th jan 3rd feb kirsty neale and i are hosting a snipped tales takeover of our collaborative instagram account thecopyandpasteproject all week we ll be sharing behind the scenes details about how we collaborated on the book and various aspects of the creative and publishing process join us there thecopyandpasteproject from monday instagram etsy facebook website posted by julie kirk at 16 15 5 comments labels snipped tales book self publishing email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest tuesday 24 january 2017 adventures in self publishing the first 7 weeks in the life of snipped tales hello hello this month on my birthday appropriately enough my book snipped tales turned one month old meanwhile the month prior to that had been an entire blur so now that things have calmed down a little i thought i d share an update fill you in on the gossip let you know how it s all going before the book arrived my hope ever since first committing to publish the book back in may was to have it ready for the christmas gift giving season so it was really stressful when the delivery date changed several times creeping ever nearer to christmas before finally arriving on december 10th 2016 i met it for the first time with only 20 minutes to spare before i had to arrive at a christmas market where i d booked a stall my first published book was arriving and i had no idea if it would all have turned out ok and then introvert that i am i had to then turn around and face people for the rest of the day at the market if you can t quite imagine my stress levels on that saturday morning then please do pause to consider having booked yourself two particularly anxious making appointments for the same day one straight after the other say like your driving test and delivering a public speech or going for a job interview followed by a smear test you get the point anyway i didn t need to worry it turned out beautifully in the end the christmas market not so much all things considered i made a loss but then my stall was directly below some kind of communist propaganda flags in the room in the gallery which also contained an exhibition of photos from chernobyl so i don t know maybe not the most conducive atmosphere for encouraging sales of vintage christmas cards and craft kits putting the book out into the world if you saw my bad portraits 2016 post you ll have also witnessed how i was apprehensive at hitting the button to set the book live in my etsy shop remember the photo of me clutching my breast fortunately apart from the occasional discomfort at holding up the queue in the post office that s where my fears ended because the response was overwhelming the first order came through less than 20 minutes after i made it available i had goosebumps i might have leaked through my eyes a tiny bit to date i ve posted out books to 9 countries across 4 continents it s completely surreal seeing it pop up across social media in its many and varied new homes the lady in the post office asked have you got a mary poppins bag when the envelopes just kept coming meanwhile i tried to ignore all the eyes in the queue burning into the back of my head around 15 of orders have come from people ordering more than one copy or those who ve ordered one and then popped back for another it s been a complete joy knowing so many people trusted me enough to buy it for themselves let alone to give as a gift every copy comes wrapped the first in vintage paper and twine and any second third copies in kraft with gift ribbon and this month i gave a 2 part interview to comebackmag on instagram which you can find here and here so what s next i ll be updating the book page of my website as well as creating a blog post so i can share some of the lovely feedback the book s received i m gathering together reviews etsy feedback 21 people so far instagram posts and other lovely things people have said i ll continue checking instagram for people using the snippedtales hashtag when they share photos of their books and the one of a kind tags each copy comes with and speaking of tags i ll continue to share one of my snippedtalestags each day on instagram until erm until i stop i suppose i m just enjoying making them right now the process helps me unwind on a night i ll be approaching alternative places to promote not only the book itself but the whole process of making snipped tales including magazines online and print and when i m feeling particularly confident in real life independent local book shops when i sell around 40 more copies i ll have paid off all of the costs relating to the project eg design and layout the print run is already covered as each page is a colour reproduction of the pages of my notebook the process is more costly than printing a novel back in december when i had a total meltdown while trying to make tea while also panicking about how many books to order i would have calmed down much more quickly if i d have known then what i know now that people will want to buy it and that it won t all have been a big mistake and if i ever need to do a second print run i now have a cover quote from an author who s kindly offered his words of support and i ll be sharing that quote in my next post along alongside some of the other kind words i ve gratefully received so that s me now do you need anything if there is any way in which my experiences in self publishing can come in useful to you do let me know and i ll start keeping a list of questions concerns observations which i can address in a later post when i ve had had more time to reflect if you have any burning questions about the book that you don t think i ve covered either here on my website or in the etsy listing then shout up and i ll do my best to answer your queries and to those of you who already have a copy yo u did check the acknowledgements page in the back didn t you i meant what i said you know thank you all so very much for your support you don t know how much it means to me every time i see a familiar name pop up in my etsy orders i absolutely 100 utterly and entirely without exaggeration could not have got this far without you thank you see you soon julie x instagram etsy facebook website posted by julie kirk at 14 50 14 comments labels snipped tales book self publishing email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest tuesday 10 january 2017 2016 a year in bad portraits hello hello and happy new year to you for the last 3 years one of my first blog posts of the new year has been a collection of the less than flattering photos taken of me during the previous year and if you re ready for a good giggle at my expense hang around as 2017 will be no different my badportraits posts are my version of a january detox where i purge my system of any build up of self importance my factory reset where i wipe away all the accumulation of gloss filters and spin of a life shared online my antidote to posting perfect lives on social media all year i resist hitting delete on all those photos that i deem ordinarily uninstagrammable totally a real word my stocking up on some good karma for all the times i have and will continue to post favourable photos of myself photos like these which throughout 2016 lived out a life as profile images or received their share of covetable likes over on my withjuliekirk instagram and now in contrast here are those shots that didn t make it into my curated online persona in 2016 january 2016 new year s day 2016 late afternoon perhaps i have some gremlin dna in me as i m really not at my best if i ve been up after midnight the night before this is either my tired and emotional pose or my guitarist in a late 90s indie rock band look note to self take photos on a morning when your make up s still on although some days even that won t save you here i am on the morning of my birthday in full make up trying and failing to capture the moment of turning 40 with any kind of effortless style instead i looked like a bush baby trying to emotionally blackmail a lift home out of someone if bush babies need lifts home and turning 40 had a few other effects on my appearance too march 2016 i don t know what to say i don t know what came over me i would never normally do something like this it s completely out of character i wore trainers with jeans 30somethings don t say you weren t warned this is what happens when you hit 40 suddenly you don t care about fashion only ease and comfort hell i even went out in a short skirt on holiday without shaving my legs and i didn t care and before you know it jerry seinfeld has become your style icon also while we re talking about awkward styling choices i had an under cut in february the underneath of my hair shaved off which i ve really enjoyed having except for the time my hairdresser wanted to cut a pattern into it and i let her bear in mind that i generally trust her completely yet this time i couldn t see what she was doing what seemed like hours later after she d already once stopped what she was doing to admit she didn t know what she was doing she finished her design and asked her staff if they could tell what it was she d done a lotus flower cried several of the women in the salon yes she replied and audibly breathed a sigh of relief and i was relieved that it was apparently a success until the only man in the room came over for a look looks like a marijuana leaf to me he helpfully added a week before i returned to work on campus let s just say i didn t wear my hair up until the design had grown out try as i might i cannot find the photo i took of it probably for the best really may 2016 this photo isn t so much a bad portrait although it is that too it s just a slightly cringey one but one which i took for a purpose i d had a terribly sore eye that felt like something was caught in there it turned out to be an allergic reaction to something tree pollen i reckon an optician used drops of dye which revealed the inflammation but it wasn t until a few hours later when i got into my car to go home that i looked in my rear view mirror and learned that it had been a bright yellow dye and i d walked around town even stopping to buy silver shoes to cheer myself up which worked with it luminously ringed around my eyelids it doesn t show up so well in the photo but it reminded me of the time in the mid 80s when i experimented with a rainbow eyeshadow palette a look which i m happy to leave in the 80s and the opticians chair and then there was this a photo i m sure was intended to capture a nice easy saturday lunch of fish and chips along the seafront enjoying the warming springtime air and blue sky so i m not sure why i m looking at the camera like someone who disapproves of everything that there s ever been to disapprove of in the history of disapprovals ever june 2016 the intention to document a quiet afternoon in the garden with a book under a blue sky the reality a re make of weekend at bernie s btw i took this photo myself myself it s not even like james sneaked up and took this unflattering gem while i was sleeping i am fully awake in this photo i am fully aware it s being taken and yet and yet and from one cadaverous portrait to another the thing with this one is i had looked nice that day for a visit to the bodyworlds animals inside out exhibition the fabulous skirt was new to me from a charity shop and as we d arrived at the venue the staff member taking our tickets had even leaned in to say nice skirt and then when it came to getting a photo i go and look all weird and bemused like this although to be fair what is the correct facial expression to strike when you re standing in front of a preserved skinned dead elephant i mean i don t remember that eventuality ever being covered by anyone giving out posing hints and tips not even on america s next top model now this next one isn t strictly a bad photo of me if anything it s one of my favourites of james and i from the last...