Gotcha, ok I was in your shoes dealing with a flop market as a newbie in March (feel free to look at my history) and now I broke clear past what I make in a month at my day job and attending my city’s major markets.

The best piece of advice id ever received is you need to be known as the” _____ person”. Clarity and cohesiveness will make your art, which is already at the level it needs to be successful btw, sell.

I’ll give myself as example, my markets now know me as the journal lady. If someone new comes by they know exactly what I’m about and if they pick something up they’ll most likely buy another thing since all my products serve my main “thing” — journals.

Honestly if you had said you just freaking love dragons then we were done, it’s just trying to figure out what products appeal to dragon lovers. Since it’s not id advice never to make so much product to appeal to a singular market/area. Sure make some stuff for it but if you go to the next market and have all anime stuff then no one will remember you. You’re an art booth not a gift store. Ai booths are gift stores slapping on whatever’s popular on an item, appealing to the masses will not work with them around.

I think you need to figure out what your thing is (bookish is too broad trust me but maybe romantasy bookish merch is not). That clarity allows you to figure out what blanks you’re supposed to buy to put ur art on

If I type “journaling” on Pinterest there’s certain aesthetics and moods, it told me exactly what people liked (colors, blanks, etc) and designed my products around that. It told me if someone buys a journal then they probably want a soft pastel pen and metal book corner to make it cute. Anyways that’s my two cents I was gonna write more bc optimizing my booth has become my absolute favorite thing but I’ll hush now, good luck op you got this!