Hey, ladies! So me and my black dress will be on the Today Show tomorrow sometime between 10am and 10:30am. It’s a super brief appearance and I won’t be talking about Offbeat Bride, but if you want to find out what my next book might be about, it’s worth tuning in!
Happy new years, everyone! It was exactly one year ago today that I officially unveiled (har har) this website. And what a crazy fucking year it’s been. I spent the first half of 2006 aggressively promoting the hell out of my book the traditional ways, with readings all over the country and lots of press with radio interviews, newspaper articles, and tv appearances. It was really REALLY exhausting, often demoralizing, and didn’t seem to do much for book sales, honestly. I mean, the book did fine … but not great. The second half of the year I focused exclusively on promoting the book via this website and not only did book sales markedly improve, but I started making money from offbeat advertisements! Yay. That makes the entrepreneur in me happy. Traffic has gone from 8,000 visits in January 2007 to over 60,000 in December 2007. DAMN! You could draw all sorts of conclusions from this (mainstream media dead? print being eclipsed by web? elvis still alive?) but I’ll just say that I’m happy it’s working out. Thanks to each of you for being a part of that working out-ness! With a year of content on the site now, I know it’s easy for things to get lost in the archives … and with there being a whole new wave of freshly engaged offbeat brides for 2008, I’m going to start occasionally linking to older posts that I think have stood the test of time, just as a way to keep older stuff fresh in the minds of newer brides and to keep from having to repeat myself. Also, incidentally, today is Andreas and my “real” anniversary. We don’t really celebrate our wedding anniversary but we’re all about our “kissaversary,” which was New Years Day, 1998. WOOHOO! That baby wearing the pink wig? That was me the first night I kissed Andreas.  Merry Christmas from all of us here at offbeatbride.com. Which, er, would be just me. And Indie Rock Santa!
Sara & Josh won! Thanks again to everyone who entered.
Remember a few months ago when I announced that I was adding Google AdSense ads to offbeatbride.com? Well, some of you have probably noticed that I’ve started getting more of my own advertisers over the last few months — this is awesome because it means I can justify removing the stupid Google AdSense ads! WHEW. No more “Romantic Luxury Mexico Vacations” in my sidebars! Unlike AdSense, Offbeat Advertisers are all filtered by me (ie, I don’t accept all the ads I’m offered — I only accept advertisers who fit with the site’s values), and (even more important to me a copywriter and control freak ) all the advertising copy is all written by me. That sound you hear is me putting down the razors that have been perched over my wrists after reading some of the poorly written tripe that has been showing up in my sidebars. A girl’s gotta do what a girl’s gotta do but seriously: whew. Thanks to all the Offbeat Advertisers who have made this switch possible by supporting the site and enabling me to keep cranking out Wedding Porn for all my ladies. Yay!
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For those of you who’ve read the book, you know how we basically re-throw our wedding every year in the form of an anniversary camp-out. I am pleased to say that after three years, the party basically throws itself and we can just sit back and enjoy it — every bride’s dream, right? Here’s a picture of us from our anniversary camp-out this past weekend, taken in the same meadow as this shot from three years ago. |
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