Self-publishing only prints a book when it is purchased, and the artist receives a royalty. Also with traditional printing, you need to pay upfront for a large minimum amount of books, which you can’t guarantee they will be sold. With self-publishing you have free tools at your disposition, you decide and control the content you want to publish.
With traditional publishing you only publish a book if you are selected by a press, then they decide what you should remove or add to the book and that can be conflicting to the artist/author’s convictions and ideas. The decision to self-publish her work was not taken likely, “It is a great alternative for independent artists, like me, who don’t have a big budget to print traditionally and don’t want to be owned by a publishing contract.
“I love Gothic Fiction and I try to rescue the storytelling and values of the classics in my stories as well as the physical beauty of old books through special layout and illustrations,” explains Isis. Isis’ works are an alternative for those who enjoy Dark Fantasy/Gothic Fiction but can’t find such books due to the market’s saturation with mainstream genres. Tragic Books places artistry above commercial value, breaking tradition with publishing rules to create a lush world of grown up dark fantasy. Making a career out of her creativity was obvious for Isis, “But with all the imagination I have running lose, there came some stories… and there came some books!” And so Tragic Books was born in 2014 as her personal creative outlet, where she publishes illustrated dark stories and art books. I love specially the Fall and Winter, where there is an overall sense of serenity, calmness and melancholy in the air.” It all very poetic and definitely helps me getting insights for the stories that pop up in my head. There are the phantasmagoric Norther Lights. During Summer it is day all the time and during Winter, we don’t even see the sun here.
Living in this tiny valley, with only 10 neighboring houses, and a lot of mountains and beautiful fjords around, I have a closer contact with nature,” she tells us, “The landscape and how we register it changes very much from season to season. “As an introvert and artist, I have the need to spend a lot of time by myself.
When she’s not creating artwork and illustrations for clients, she writes and paints and enjoys woodworking. She is an artist, illustrator and graphic designer. Isis has always been enamored by the dark with a fondness for the arts, history and heavy metal. In a tiny Norwegian valley surrounded by mountain, but very few neighbors, lives Isis Sousa, a native of Brazil.
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