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Sumac is one of the latest products we've added to the Artisan Rail Media web site. Check it out HERE When I set up this web site it was just before I finished the text and photography for Modeling Autumn Scenery - and the goal was a web page where people could reliably and safely order a book, we could track the orders on our end and be able to see who ordered books, where to send them! I looked around at a number of possibilities and settled on Wix. Of course some people im

We had a great time at the National Train Show! We're back from the National Train Show in Chattanooga and we certainly had a great time. Two highlights for the Artisan Rail Media team - We were really excited to announce our second book, Modeling Civil War Railroads by Bernard Kempinski, and the other (better!) half of the Artisan Rail team took first place in the People's Choice Awad in the Arts and Crafts category with her quilt "Hometown Crossing." That makes one NMRA pri

Artisan Rail Media is hitting the road! We are thrilled to announce that we will be at the upcoming NMRA National Convention and National Train Show in Tennessee. Where to Find Us We will be set up in the Craftsman Courtyard during the National Train Show, August 1-2. Please stop by, say hellow, and check out our full lineup of products: Book Sales: Copies of Modeling Autumn Scenery will be available for purchase at our table. Exclusive decals: We will have a limited number o

If you're on Facebook, be sure to follow our new Artisan Rail Media page where you will find some tips and techniques that DIDN'T make it into Modeling Autumn Scenery, details on using our decals, info on upcoming shows and future releases and more! You can find us on Facebook at: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61591556816215

Signing the initial order of books before packing them up for shipping. Our dining room and office literally turned into Artisan Rail Media's order fulfillment center. We've had a great reception to Modeling Autumn Scenery - in fact we've had to order more books!! When we first embarked on this Artisan Rail journey I knew I wanted to self-publish. I also knew that stocking, shipping, and fulfilling orders can also be a less than enjoyable experience. We seriously considered d

It's come to my attention that some folks have been getting "we don't ship to your region" messages when they're attempting to order a book. If they were trying to get a book shipped to some exotic foreign land I get it ... at first I was hearing from places like Australia and Switzerland ... which seems weird since we've been shipping copies of Modeling Autumn Scenery to those two countries for the last month. But now we're hearing from such exotic regions as Wisconsin that

First of all, thanks to everyone who has inquired about or preordered a copy of Artisan Rail Media's premier publication, Modeling Autumn Scenery. My goal was to get the book to the printer and shipped by the end of March. The bad news is I missed our March 31st deadline, the good news is the book is actually in the capable hands of our printers and I expect to see a prepress copy by the end of this week. As long as that checks out we should have the books in hand and can shi