Howdy folks,
Thanks for clicking over here ! My name is Ejen and I self-published a hardcover photography coffee table book on cosplay here in America. I spent 5 months traveling to 6 cons, photographing over 1,600 cosplayers. The final book comes to 260 cosplayers from 30 states in the country. I self-financed and self-published this project through a few credit cards and a bank loan. Feel free to check through the rest of the site to get an idea of the book.
I spent the last 20 months of my life touring through cons from San Diego Comic Con to Anime Expo, DragonCon to New York Comic Con. I sold book in artist alley and in dealer hall, book by book to the people. I gave talks, put out promo cards, made video blogs but I've come to realized that I can not reach everyone at the cons and not everyone are able to come to a con.
In the 2 years since I've started social media on my book, my followers have grown to 75,000 with Facebook leading at roughly 70,000 followers. I also keep up twitter, deviant art, model mayhem, youtube, flickr, and tumblr. I have a 3,000+ list of emails which I do a newsletter every 3 months. Along the way I've been mention on MTV Geek, The Beat, Boing Boing, LA Weekly and The Madeleine Brand Show (NPR).
Though I currently sell the book at my own site, I will be shutting that down at the end of Jan. At that time, the only way to get the book is either at your bookstores/comic book stores or find me at a con.
If you do carry my book, please let me know so I can add your store, store link, address and phone number a page on my website . Once a week, I'll post the link of page on all my social media.
For those retailers on twitter, if you do carry my book, mention @cosplayamerica and I will retweet your message.
I know it is a tough economy out there and getting tougher but I will do my best to draw people to your store. Hopefully we can work together.
Thank you.
ejen
cosplayinamerica@gmail.com
Dimensions : 8" x 10" x 1"
Weight : 3 pounds
Pages: 272 pages / 260 full color photographs
Suggested Retail Price : $40.00 USD
ISBN-10: 0615349064
ISBN-13: 978-0615349060
Images for press are available here
Distributors : Diamond (DEC111343) / Last Gasp / DKE / AAA Anime