Last night I had my second publishing nightmare. I dreamt I was at a craft show, selling my wares. I opened up a carton of “Portuguese Whitework” and discovered that it was all wrong! The cover was a pale, insipid yellow, with a small photo in the middle and boring writing at the top. The page numbers were all wrong – letters in the middle of the numbers and I’m sure I saw one that was about 32000. The last problem were that there were hardly any pages in the book – it looked like half the pages were missing!
I didn’t sell any books that day (at my dreamt craft show) which was extremely disappointing.
I’m so glad these things don’t happen in real life!
White Threads is the blog of Yvette Stanton, the author, designer, publisher behind Vetty Creations' quality needlework books and embroidery products.
LOL! At least you are not back in high school, learning that you have to take a chemistry final you haven’t studied for! I had that dream well into my 30s.
I think I recognize that book you described from your dream, btw. It sounds like the Inspirations Index for issues 1 to 42. Am I right?
Hi Monica, I also semi regularly dream that I am trying to get to work by public transport, but just can’t get there – being thwarted at every attempt. This is an old dream, because I don’t work outside the home anymore, so I don’t need any sort of transport to get to work!
Inspirations Index? I’m not familiar with this book, so I don’t think I was dreaming of it. Sounds like it was just a coincidence! The book in my dream was “Portuguese Whitework”, just not in a form that I would recognise it!