Veil & Subdue Blog

So I’m learning that placing an advertisement in a national magazine is not enough to drive sales. Gothic Beauty has been out for about a month now, and that nice 1/4 page ad I placed in there has produced NOT ONE SALE. This magazine has a distribution of 27,000! You’d think the odds alone would guarantee me a few curious people with 20 bucks to spend, but nope!

So, I still have a lot to learn, and a lot of work to do to get this thing out there in front of people enough that they want to own the Veil & Subdue journey. I am doing research even as we speak on said techniques, and will be instigating these forthwith…

In the meantime, good responses from those who HAVE bought the CD, so that’s nice anyway… ;^)

Long belated update! Where have I been, you ask? Well, took some time off to get married to the lovely Tina Huggins, who is MASQUE’s resident videographer, photographer, and Veil & Subdue’s own Femme de la Morte! Now she is all mine!!

The CD is now selling briskly, and hopefully the quarter-page ad in Gothic Beauty magazine #28 will pull in a more expansive audience. I’m quite pleased with the whole final package – DiscMakers did an outstanding job of manufacturing the whole thing, and call me particular but I’m especially pleased with the varnish they put on the outer packaging – feels almost like leather, and looks dark and frosty. And of course their final mastering really took the whole thing over the top. I’m truly blown away to have the final product in my hands, and on shelves, and online!!

Locally, just wrapped up an interview for an article about Veil & Subdue which will appear in the local free press paper, Folio Weekly. Now I just need to find some time to run these CDs around to some more stores, including down to Orlando where the goth undercurrent is much more lively.

Now that sales are underway, the next project for the CD is to create a video for the veilandsubdue.com website, as well as for YouTube, etc. I believe the song will be Bed of Ashes, and I have a few ideas brewing for that.

Well, that’s all for now. Hold your candle high in the dark, and buy a CD if you haven’t already!!   ;^D

Paul