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Ian M. Palmer

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Ian M. Palmer

Writing, Illustration and 3D

  • Writing
    • Closed for Good?
    • The Heart of the Home
    • Pillbox Country
  • Comics & Cartoons
    • River: Skin on the Outside
    • The American President
    • The Chicken King And The Prince Of Birds
    • Beith
    • The Blessing
  • Art & Photography
    • 2323
  • 3D Modelling
  • Contact Me

Category: Selling & Retail

How essential is it?
Kitchens, etcSelling & Retail

How essential is it?

Half the job of writing is editing. In pass after pass, I removed one anecdote after another from The Heart of…

A bit dodge
Kitchens, etcSelling & Retail

A bit dodge

I’ve never made it a secret that there are practices in our market sector with which I’m not going to…

Trust me, I’m a salesman
Kitchens, etcSelling & Retail

Trust me, I’m a salesman

I never imagined that The Heart of the Home would sell millions, even before publishers told me it wouldn’t. Once you self-publish,…

The mass market
Kitchens, etcSelling & Retail

The mass market

I’ve hinted that The Heart of the Home went through a lot of rewriting. Some was to do with fact – adding…

A book by its cover
Kitchens, etcSelling & Retail

A book by its cover

It took me close to fifteen years, on and off, to write The Heart of the Home. It took me weeks…

The god of the dead
Kitchens, etcSelling & Retail

The god of the dead

When I make notes about The Heart of the Home, which I’ve done a lot over the years I took to…

How to (go back in time)
Kitchens, etcSelling & Retail

How to (go back in time)

I’ve been posting about some of the books in my small library on kitchen design, as I pack them away…

Kitchens, etcSelling & Retail

More visits

I’ve been talking – in a recent post, and in my book, The Heart of the Home – about visiting competitors’ (and…

doit
Kitchens, etcSelling & Retail

doit

Talking, as I have been, about the charm in older kitchen books… This one had no impact at all on…

Visiting showrooms
Kitchens, etcSelling & Retail

Visiting showrooms

In The Heart of the Home, I wrote that one thing a designer can do to gain easy advantage is to…

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