The shirt shows four letters and a period. Lowercase, centered, very small on a dark ground. meh. No animal. No […]
The Composition Notebook Shirt: A Costume That Works Because It Stops at the Label
The shirt is a rectangle of black-and-white speckle, a dark binding strip down the left edge, and a white ruled […]
The ‘I Had Potential’ Shirt: A Physics Diagram That Argues With Its Own Caption
The shirt reads I HAD POTENTIAL in white capitals. Beneath the words, a white curved ramp descends from an upper-left […]
The Tweedle Dum Shirt: A Joke That Only Works When Someone Stands to Your Right
The shirt reads TWEEDLE DUM across the chest, and beneath it, smaller: I’M WITH DEE, followed by a right-pointing arrow. […]
The Library Stop: Pitching Virtual Library Programs With No Publicist and No Budget
The Library Stop: Pitching Virtual Library Programs With No Publicist and No Budget You open a library’s author page, read […]
The Meh Shirt: When the Period Does the Work
Editorial note: This publication and Quirky Cotton Collective share an owner. The shirt is a dark garment with four white […]
The Panel Stop: Co-Touring With Three Authors So None of You Has to Fill a Room Alone
The Panel Stop: Co-Touring With Three Authors So None of You Has to Fill a Room Alone You know the […]
The Greetings Huzz Cat Shirt: A Joke That Needs You to Read the Cat’s Face
The shirt does not say hello. It says GREETINGS, arched in blue-purple dimensional letters above an orange tabby, and then […]
The Camera-Off Stop: Audio-Only and Chat-First Formats for Authors Who Freeze on Video
You have a book to promote and a face that locks up the moment a red recording dot appears. That […]
What Happens When You Rename Every Stop on a Tour: A Stop-Naming Debrief (With Costs)
The Naming Decision You’re Too Tired to Make Well By the time you reach stop naming, the hard work feels […]
The Baseline Week: The Sales and Subscriber Numbers to Record Before Stop One
You will finish the tour with a folder of numbers. Clicks. Opens. Reviews. A sales rank that moved on a […]
The ‘Let’s Root For Each Other’ Shirt: A Pun That Argues With Itself
The shirt reads, in full: LET’S ROOT FOR EACH OTHER AND WATCH EACH OTHER GROW. The words wrap around four […]