Write Time

I'd mentioned a while ago that I would try out doing live broadcasts on the fly when I have time during the day. Well, I had some time today while I was swabbing up 5 new Diamine colors (Sargasso Sea, Grape, Ochre, Peach Haze, and Misty Blue) and 10 new De Atramentis colors (Verdi, Puccini, Shakespeare, Handel, Tchaikovsky, Raphael, Augustus, Dante, Brahms and Don Quichote), so if you have any interest in watching me do that, enjoy!

After a week-long teaser, we finally released the new Edison Nouveau Encores last night during our Write Time broadcast, with Brian Gray of Edison joining us by phone. The chat wasn't working for most of the broadcast which was a total bummer, especially since we had so much to talk about! The broadcast went for a solid two hours, mainly because we had been on hiatus for the last month and had a lot to talk about.

Last night's broadcast was great, Rachel and I made some 'night coffee' and it helped to give us a little energy boost to share everything we needed to talk about before taking our Write Time hiatus.

Yesterday, we introduced the Fountain of Knowledge, a library of reviews, comparison tools, and glossary terms for all things related to fountain pens on the GouletPens.com website. Essentially, we have created a place where anyone interested in learning about fountain pens can go, especially those new to the hobby. It's been well-received so far, but we'd really love to hear what you think!

Jamie Williams Grossman was kind enough to join us for Write Time last night to share some preliminary results of her Noodler's Eternal Ink UV-resistance test. See how she does her test here. She does a lot of work with ink washing and acrylic painting, and runs a great blog over at Hudson Valley Sketches that I recommend you visit.

Thanks to everyone who joined us last night! I'm SOOOO sorry that Ellie was so fussy. She is only 6-weeks old after all! We worked to time everything right with her feeding and all to do the broadcast uninterrupted, but she had her own plan :P There's a little crying here and there, but that is our life right now! We didn't want to stop/cancel the broadcast, so you'll just hear a little baby noise in the background.

It was great to be back this week! We had a fun broadcast, and got to show off our beautiful little girl. Brian Gray was kind enough to join us by phone for a few minutes to talk about his new production line Herald pen, as well as several other models he has in the works (links below). We laid out timelines for a whole host of new products coming out.

This was our last broadcast of 2011, and the last before the birth of our little girl! We spent a lot of time talking about everything we've been doing to prepare for our baby, and the logistics of the new products we have coming in over the next few weeks. We'll be tied up with family needs, so we won't be doing Write Time for at least the next few weeks. We'll announce when we're coming back once we see how things go with a new life with two kids!

Last night we had two big things to launch! One was the introduction of De Atramentis inks on GouletPens.com, and the other is the new writing comparison tool called the Nib Nook. We've been working for months to develop the Nib Nook, which is a tool that allows you to view easily comparable writing samples with all of the different pen models and nib sizes that we carry. Like the ink samples and Swab Shop, it's a revolutionary tool that we hope will be incredibly useful.

We're back with another Write Time! This time, on YouTube, due to popular demand :) I was finally able to figure out how to both record on my computer and broadcast at the same time…it's a bit more work for me to go and post the video on YouTube instead of just using the embedded video on JustinTV, but it's worth it to avoid some of the technical issues some of you have been having with previous videos.