As of today, I'm officially unemployed! Cindy makes good money, but I'll need at least a part time job to cover the bills and luxuries. What to do? Go to school and get a degree, I suppose.
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I would love to write for a living - but could I be prolific enough? Could I sell enough? Even if I wrote like crazy, it could take years to build up the necessary inertia money-wise. I do plan to get my ass in gear and get writing, asap.
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I'll need something on the side. A home-based business would be good, or maybe I can make money with one of my ideas.
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Like this one - Great Illustrated Classics is a series of books adapted for kids - there are nearly 70 in all (you can purchase all 66 for $400.00) and they feature the whole story alternating 1 page of text, with 1 page of art depicting the scene.
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Unlike many "books for kids", the art used in Great Illustrated Classics is very good - I've always liked it. If I hadn't loved the books so much as a kid, I would have taken them apart and hung the pages as art.
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I came across a display of these books a few weeks ago at a drugstore of all places, and I spent a good 10 minutes flipping through them. The art was still damn good, even from my grown-up viewpoint (this opinion is tinged more than a bit with nostalgia, I'll admit).
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My question for those of you familiar with the books is, if (ahem!) someone licensed the art and offered them as prints (say, 16x20) at a reasonable price - (just the print, or framed and matted) - are there enough nostalgic adults out there who would buy them?
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I'd only print them after they were ordered, so overhead would be pretty low...
