Two Books to Consult if you’re thinking of Accelerating your Quilting Career
Insider's Guide to Quilting Careers
Insider’s Guide to Quilting Careers - This excellent guide produced by Linda Hahn and Merry May introduces the reader to the incredibly wide variety of careers available in today’s quilting world. The book offers practical advice and detailed instructions on how to start up a career in quilting. It also gives quite a few doses of reality check. This book is especially valuable for any quilter with dreams of pursuing a professional career in the quilting industry. It has valuable insight for professional quilters for growing and improving existing quilting related businesses with the goal of opening new avenues for oppportunities and achieving better profits. Insider’s Guide to Quilting Careers is published by Quiltwoman.com, 2009, 168 pages
Publish Your Patterns!
First you put your design ideas to paper. How do you determine whether a pattern will sell well. Publish Your Patterns! by Nancy Restuccia, (McKenna Linn) provides nearly everything you haven’t thought of – what to consider and what to do when writing great instructions, creating an effective cover and getting your patterns printed. How about pricing for profit, advertising and promoting your patterns, doing trade shows and staying within budget. Having your products available on the web, hosting your own site, protecting your legal interests, copyrights, trademarks, licensing your designs- it’s a potential mine field out there. Publish Your Patterns! includes comprehensive contact information for editors, publishers, distributors, suppliers, trade and consumer shows, networking opportunities and much more. You get a lot in 144 pages of advice in Publish Your Patterns!
