The Shirts Off Our Backs

Colin Wright

The worldwide population of indie authors is a massive, scattered club.

Part of what we wanted to accomplish with Asym was to establish a touchpoint for indies to use — a place to go and hang out, meet other people who are working toward similar goals, and share what they’ve learned along the way with each other.

The Asym Community has served as a foundation for that touchpoint. But we’ve realized along the way that when you’re enthusiastic about the work you do — and the group that you run with — sometimes you want to wear that affiliation on your sleeve. Josh, Ryan, and I wanted to do this literally, so I mocked up some shirts for us to wear, and they went over pretty well. We started getting asked about them at during book tour talks and when we were just ambling about town.

As a result, we’ve taken some of these designs and made them available as print-on-demand shirts and stickers. We’re also reformatting some of them for use as posters, greeting cards, you name it.

I want to make very clear that you don’t need to buy anything from us — it would be hilariously hypocritical for a company run by three minimalists to say such a thing — but if you need a shirt, or if you have been looking for a sticker to put on your notebook, we’ve got a few options for you, and are working on a few more. We make a few bucks on every sale, but we don’t expect this to be a massive moneymaker — it’s just something fun for us, and hopefully for you, too.

FYI: The shirts we’re wearing in the photos below are “Scarlet Letter” (our ‘A’ logo), “Monty the Literate Buffalo” (“Saw the movie. The book was better.”), and “Reading is Sexy,” in that order.

Josh and I grabbed a camera and snapped some photos of the ones we’ve already ordered for ourselves, and more images will be forthcoming as we get some in for Ryan, and as our orders of the other designs arrive.