Our New Book Has A Website!
Hello everyone! I'm so happy to be here today because when I'm not blogging, I'm thinking about blogging and all of the things that I want to share and show to you. I thought I'd first share a project I've been working on this week - the new website for Decorate With Flowers, my latest book in which I've teamed up with Leslie Shewring this time to produce a decorating book with a very floral point-of-view. I am so proud of it and what Leslie and I created together! We wrote it when I was pregnant, so I will forever cherish it based on that alone. I loved working so closely with Leslie on this title - she was my partner-in-crime throughout the entire project from beginning to end and we also were able to spend a special week together in my home when we began shooting the book back in May 2013 which has a little background story to it...
OK so a funny side story to share: Leslie and I went out each night for dinner after our shoots and our conversations kept going back to how much I wanted to have a baby and that it's an important "next step" for me and that maybe after the book I'd get pregnant (since I planned to do a big book tour for Decorate With Flowers). During those conversations, Leslie kept giving me great tips and encouragement and basically was my pregnancy cheerleader. The only thing was, while we were out talking about my desire to start a family, I was ALREADY pregnant with Aidan! In fact, I found out 3 weeks after she left Hannover and I couldn't believe it. Isn't life funny?
So this is our new website for Decorate With Flowers... It is here that we'll drop extra bonus content from the book, an image gallery where you can grab images to use on your blogs and pin for inspiration, press stuff (so if you write about us send your link to my assistant jessy@decor8blog.com and we'll link it to the press page), tour related information since Leslie and I plan to do some events in the UK, Europe, Canada and the United States... Though we won't be doing a full on book tour together with West Elm and Chronicle Books as we had hoped since my son is only 18 days old, we will be visiting different cities to meet you guys and give workshops... And in May, in London, we'll be together to do a lovely launch event with Anthropologie and Jacqui Small Publishing.
Decorate With Flowers will be published in 6 editions currently as outlined here. Foreign language editions include Italian, French, German and Dutch. The UK, US and German versions are shown photographed above. Purchase information here.
We sincerely hope that you enjoy, and will share, our book website! It's something I thought to do for my second book but didn't have the time so I definitely wanted to try it for the third! I find that nowadays online, you really have to look for interesting ways to promote your work that adds value and isn't just another "look at me!" opportunity. That is why I think this website is so helpful - it makes it easy for others to find and use images from our book, find out where to buy them, the available languages, publication dates, who are publicity team is and also just background info on us and bonus content that we think readers, fans, friends and journalists who are looking for a story angle may find super helpful. It's a good idea to pull everything together in one place. I don't know about you guys, but these days we have social media connections all over the place and we can be found everywhere online - so I like the idea of having one spot where people can go to find out everything they need to know about Decorate With Flowers. If you are an author or due to become one, why not try creating your own book website too?
xo, Holly
(images: 1. Caitlin Sheehan 2. Screenshot 3. Leslie Shewring 4. Leslie Shewring)