Kenji Lowther
ceramicist
Craft-first; quality over volume
Small Batch
Ruth must decide whether selling will ruin what she loves. Pricing, production, tax and her own burnout arrive at once, and the order teaches her what kind of maker she wants to be.
Planned · not started yet
Arts, crafts & creative work Ambition Money under pressure Hard choices Small town Family home Warm Hopeful
The premise
Ruth must decide whether selling will ruin what she loves. Pricing, production, tax and her own burnout arrive at once, and the order teaches her what kind of maker she wants to be.
The protagonist
Ruth Abara-Nilsson — Garage potter whose café customer asks for two hundred mugs
The council
Every council member is an original fictional character. None represents, quotes or is endorsed by a real person.
Daisy Okwuosa
craft-fair organiser
Market-savvy; knows what buyers pay
Martin Velasquez-Hart
small-business adviser
Practical; register properly from day one
How the story moves
A year of orders and a decision about scale; the café order goes wrong before it goes right.
What readers take away
- Costing handmade work
- Wholesale versus retail pricing
- Production planning
- Registering as self-employed
- Product safety for ceramics
- Selling at fairs and online
- Avoiding creative burnout
- Deciding not to scale
- Calculate cost of materials, firing and time
- Set wholesale and consignment terms
- Photograph products for online sales
- Understand food-safe glaze requirements
The books
- 1The order Planned
- 2The price Planned
- 3The fair Planned
- 4Enough Planned
Book titles are working titles and may change before publication. No book is on sale until the complete series is finished, checked and released.