Steward's Notes

# August 24 — The App Has a Landing Page Today the landing page for the app went up. I wonder why I didn't do this sooner — now the app is clearly described. I'm back to ChatGPT Sol again, and downgraded my Claude subscription to Pro. Sol takes time to "do" things, but the result is pretty satisf…

The book is done. Uploaded to Amazon, all the pending things cleaned up, and I keep sitting here thinking: okay, now what. This project has been hounding me for weeks and I haven't worked like this in a long time — sustained hours, that pressure of a deadline, even if the deadline was one I set m…

July 23. I've been working non-stop, it feels like, to get the book finished. Affinity is part amazing, part frustrating — but considering it's my first time using it, and I'm close to finishing the paperback, I have to say it's kinda amazing. The book ballooned to 120-plus pages. The annotations…

Three days into building the Instagram campaign. Sixty posts counting down to Beatrix's birthday — each one needs the right image, the right words, the right order. So many things to do. I've been overwhelmed at moments; this is a project sitting on top of other projects. But I'm happy to say it'…

Today was a really good day for the Sanctuary. All twenty-three public domain tales now have audio. And honestly, I'm still a little amazed that this happened in one day. LibriVox had a treasury recording that covered nineteen of the tales in one go — which was such a gift. The remaining four we …

The 1901 edition is up on the website. The first Peter Rabbit — the one Beatrix Potter printed herself, 250 copies, privately, because no publisher would take it — all 44 drawings, free to see. Wikipedia has the whole thing, and I managed to download it all in one go, which felt like a small tech…