I’m waiting for the editor’s e-mail to start promoting a new pattern that’s j-u-s-t about done as far as I can tell.
If I were self pubbing this, I’d bounce around the internet slapping it up on platforms, checking to see if anyone had noticed it yet, tweeting and Facebooking about my nerves – but the pattern too – and sending out lots of photos, my own and the ones I paid a photographer for. Getting the formats tidy on Ravelry, Patternfish, Love Knitting and Craftsy all take time (a half an hour each sometimes) the longest one of all is my own pattern page, because I only manage about 4 patterns a year, and I forget how to do the html in between! I’ve had at least one dinner get served late because I was bouncing and promoting and forgot that I’m the chief cook around here.
Mama Bear was annoyed at me – I don’t remember if the family was too.
I’ve copied more organized people’s promotion processes onto a note card on my Tomboy Notes on my computer desktop – but I haven’t had a pattern to promote since I decided to become more organized.
So – sometime super soon, I’ll be getting the go-ahead. First I’ll gift it to the club members who have already paid for it, then tweet and FB about it, I suppose I could have a blog post ready to go in the drafts folder and shoot that off too, then tweet about that. I already have a technique draft ready to go, but it doesn’t have much about the specifics of this particular pattern.
Which reminds me:
Do you find posts about specific patterns boring unless they mention a story or technique (throat clear, I find my posts about specific patterns boring unless I’m telling a story or mentioning a technique.)
Do you find posts about technique boring unless you are working a pattern that uses that technique?
Does your interest depend on if you are in Designer mode or Knitter mode? (whether we publish or not, most of us do both)
Or does it all depend on how many pictures I scrounged up?
I really have no idea! Please comment and tell me!
There, that’s a better use of time than hitting send/receive on my e-mail server to see if the editor has hit the go switch yet.