Putting Together My NFT Book

I've just finished minting all 41 pieces of the Small Gods of Time Travel NFT collection on Objkt. The minting process was easy enough, though it was time consuming. Filling out the minting form went quickly, but waiting for the transaction to go through typically took several minutes or more. About half of the time, when the NFT had been successfully minted, an error message appeared, saying to try again because it didn't work. In fact, the token had always been successfully minted, and the website front end just hadn't caught up with what was happening.

Going into the project, how to price the NFTs was unclear. I was still undecided about pricing when I started minting items yesterday. Then someone offered to buy two of the ones I'd minted for 5 xtz each. So I decided to put 10 each of every item up for sale at 5 xtz. The market will eventually determine the wisdom of this move.

Pictured above is one of my favorite pictures in the collection. The image was generated by AI from the words 'electric fields cannot lie.' It's uncanny how the machine captured the somewhat abstract concept. Here's a direct link to the item.

There are a couple of artworks in the collection that I don't particularly care for. Maybe someone will like them, but not me. I kept them as-is because of a commitment to a standardized image generation process. Every piece was made in exactly the same way. I feel like that's part of what makes the collection interesting.

Small Gods of Time Travel will eventually be made into a physical book. The cost of printing has been climbing sharply, so I probably won't make too many to start. Aside from the cover, no images will be included in the print edition. Nor will the book's scores of hyperlinks function in print.

It's been a while since I've undertaken a project this big. The complexity of turning a 40 chapter novel into a set of NFTs was daunting. Every part had to fit together cleanly. The IPFS web book had to operate flawlessly. The NFT market listings had to look great. And the only way to produce these results was to complete a series of seemingly-endless, repetitive tasks.

Now that Small Gods of Time Travel has dropped, I'm not completely sure how to market it. I plan to tell my friends about it until they tire of my shameless self promotion. What I'll do after that is a mystery. I wonder how good Facebook is at showing NFT ads to NFT collectors.

As far as social media, I can handle Twitter and Telegram marketing, but I hate Discord and can't even figure out simple things on it, like how to remove new message notifications. Nor am I an Instagram person. I never use phone apps, so I use Instragram on my laptop and have posted zero things to it.

Read my novels:

• The Paradise Anomaly is available in print via Blurb and for Kindle on Amazon.
• Psychic Avalanche is available in print via Blurb and for Kindle on Amazon.
• One Man Embassy is available in print via Blurb and for Kindle on Amazon.
• Flying Saucer Shenanigans is available in print via Blurb and for Kindle on Amazon.
• Rainbow Lullaby is available in print via Blurb and for Kindle on Amazon.
• The Ostermann Method is available in print via Blurb and for Kindle on Amazon.
• Blue Dragon Mississippi is available in print via Blurb and for Kindle on Amazon.