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The Saturday before my signing is Free Comic Book Day, traditionally the biggest day of the year for any comic shop. These are pack-in cards for FCBD; I’m making somewhere between 500 and 750 of them depending on cost. They will all be handed out that day pretty much no matter how many I make. This is alpha-level early, so if anyone has comments or advice I’d love to hear it.

The back side will be black-and-white; ignore the color logo.

Note: I’m not including the address of the comic shop on the cards because they’ll be handed to customers AT THE COMIC SHOP, who presumably know where they are. The store’s logo is on there twice to remind them if they forget. I’m planning on pricing the books at $10.00 for one or $15 for two; bringing the card will let you get one for $5 or both for $10. This still represents profit as my per-book cost is low. Do I need to find a place to put that on the card?

Casey Heying, by the way, owns the shop, so people will know who he is.

Whaddya think?

Vogon_jeltz (NOTE: I am not getting divorced. Not even close. Calm down, Mom.)

However, if I do ever get divorced (I’m not ever getting divorced) my wife and I now have to figure out how to split up my small press that I just brought into existence today and which we are co-owners of. I’d like to announce the existence of Prostetnic Publications, a small press that exists specifically to publish the work of a certain independent author who all of you are terribly familiar with.

Note, here, that I have always been my own publisher, and that in fact the vast majority of independent authors are their own publishers. Amazon.com and Smashwords and the like are technically distributors, which is an entirely different thing. Prostetnic exists mainly to solve the legal conundrum I found myself in over the last week or so, which is that I need a legal entity other than me working under my real name for my money to go to. As I now have a legal sole proprietorship company with a bank account and everything (I did that today too,) I can now open a business PayPal account, which means that when I start selling my books directly from my website (Oops! Did I admit that I was doing that? Yeah, that’s happening soon.) you will be paying Prostetnic and not me. Only Prostetnic is me, so… yeah.

Sooner or later, I’ll set up a website; for now, prostetnic.com and prostetnicpublications.com both resolve here.

And since Prostetnic is a sole proprietorship and not an LLC, its money is my money, so no corporate taxes. I think. Need to double-check on this with Dad. And maybe an actual law-talker.

In closing, have this video, which runs through my head every time I talk about lawyers.