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Monday, May 19, 2014

PFF & SS - Stool, more art, & ebook launch

Hello to all my friends at Paint Party Friday and Sunday Sketches!

I wanted to share some art and the inauguration or the ebook store we launched.

Jim's birthday is May 24th and all he really wanted was for the ebook/kindle store to be launched - which is what I have done, with 13 titles and more coming.

In order to launch it I have been writing people and letting them know these ebooks are available, either for folks to read or to buy for other people as gifts. Some as cheap as $1 and short as a few pages - others way longer.

So far all the writing is his, and I assist in graphic layout, and cover design. I have some book ideas of my own, but for now it is his writings I am sharing about.

Things he writes are anything from short fiction to exploratory biographical essays about folks involved in the renewable energy field. They range from $1 to $6. Many more are coming. 

The book I'm particularly excited about is the one shown on the cover here, Homily Sticks... etc - this book contains all the poems/verses we have put into wood art - and contains a fine collection of all the wood art - some examples of which I have posted here over the past few weeks/months.


It has been in any event a great winter project, that hopefully will continue. I especially enjoyed putting the Homily Sticks book together, which required a great deal of Photoshopping! It gave me a good excuse to document the pieces we have made. I not only have been able to edit the pieces to account for a bad camera, but I've been able to put a groovy background on the pieces, and show all sides of the things. That's what happens when you have 3D work - all sides are important

So there you go! Please feel free to share the link to our Amazon store with anyone who might be interested. "feel free to purchase one if you fancy one" goes without saying :D

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=ntt_athr_dp_sr_1?_encoding=UTF8&field-author=James%20L%20Hickey&search-alias=digital-text&sort=relevancerank




Also am sharing pics of a stool we have been working on. This is the first time we take on a big furniture piece, and it has been rewarding. Our good friend John Behr out of Tennessee built it, and we have been decorating it. This is only 1/2 finished, as can be seen.

thanks for stopping by! Have an awesome weekend!

12 comments:

Netty said...

congratulations on your success. Happy PPF, Annette x

http://nettysartadventures.blogspot.co.uk/

Faye said...

Amazing! Congratulations.

Abigail Davidson said...

Lovely wood art, and congratulations!

carol l mck said...

I love, love, love your art work ~ so beautiful ~ thanks for info about e-books ~ Apple also has ibooks which is what I read now ~ Congrats to you both ~ xoxo

artmusedog and carol (A Creative Harbor)

GalleryJuana said...

Congratulations on your new book! The furniture stool looks amazing and I predict you'll be getting more requests for your furniture art. visiting from sunday sketches.

Victoria said...

Hello kindred..such beautiful art and magical creations! Many Congrats on all of your fantastic news! Hooray..and Cheers!
Victoria

DVArtist said...

Congratulations!!! I really like this stool a LOT.
Nicole/Beadwright

Ginny said...

Congratulations on all that you are doing.

Lisabella Russo said...

Congratulations on getting your shop open! The content looks really interesting. I love the stool!

The Rev. Arnoldo L. Romero, MLA said...

Congratulations on launching your eBook store. I also LOVE that stool. Blessings!

AM Zafaran said...

The E-book store looks great and I love that stool!

Giggles said...

Good for your guys!! What a wonderful project to complete!!!
Well done!

Hugs Giggles