A very practical nitty-gritty post.
How much self-publishing a photography book actually costs
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Welcome to Chaos Theory,
This blog/newsletter is for artists. For storytellers. For lateral thinkers. For multi-hyphenates. For chaos goblins. For the square pegs. For those who refuse to follow a trodden path. Those who feel everything so, so deeply. For those who are still working things out.
Expect weekly-ish journeys down various rabbit holes straight into your inbox, with selected essays published here.
I don’t want to be a content machine
Some thoughts on content production vs creativity vs mental health.
Who wants to be a brand?
Some thoughts on personal branding and the fracturing of self.
Lessons learned from a failed Kickstarter
TL;DR: You can order Beauty Hunting here. The majority (56 percent) of all Kickstarter projects fail. So it really should have come as no surprise when the Kickstarter to publish my debut photography book Beauty Hunting failed last summer. I only managed to raise 32 percent of the money I...
What do you want?
Around this time last year I wrote about not making any New Year’s resolutions. How it was, in fact, crazy that we became conditioned to make them at the gloomiest part of the year (I took the paywall off that post - you’re welcome to read it and share your own thoughts). I still don’t make New...
Goodbye, Instagram?
Several authors and creatives I follow recently announced, with fanfare, that they are leaving Instagram… only to confess in the next breath that they are, actually, just giving the keys to a member of a team who will still continue posting important updates on their behalf. These...
Marketing on the spectrum
I recently came across a question in one of the photography groups I’m in about marketing on the spectrum. The anonymous poster shared that they tried to do ALL. THE. THINGS. to market their photography business: networking groups, door-to-door marketing, Instagram lives - you name it. They burned...