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Apr. 15th, 2009 03:20 pmSo, then I wrote and published a book.
Or something :D It's not for sale yet. I uploaded the final draft of Nameless to Lulu this morning, in order to get the dimensions for the cover (you can't know the exact size of a wraparound cover until you know the thickness of the spine). I faked up a cover just to get through from the "you're making a book" stage to the "here's what it will cost" stage.
My battle cry is TRANSPARENCY! and so here is some detail up front:
Nameless will be 216 pages full-count, with 208 of those being text (the rest is cover, flyleaf, backleaf, etc). It includes fourteen chapters and a postscript. The final product will measure 6"x9", about the size of any softcover novel (larger than a paperback, smaller than a hardback). It carries the Extribulum Press imprint in the copyright information and is marked as a First Edition. It will not carry an ISBN, though there will eventually be a second printing that will.
The cost to print the book is $8.82 -- that's the cut that Lulu takes. It's not as cheap as I'd like, but I also want the book to be a little more durable than the mass-market paperback option, which would run $6.58 but use publisher-grade paper and a weird size. If I discover someday that I have spare time on my hands (AHAHAHAAHAHHAHAHA), I might reformat the file for mass-market and do a paperback release.
Given the price, the added cost of postage, and the fact that, you know, I have a day job and don't need to make my fortune on this, I will probably be setting the price for Nameless around $10. I'm still mulling this over.
The PDF of the final cut is completed, but I'm going to make it available simultaneously with the release of the hardcopy, so it'll be a week or two before that happens. I need to design and upload the cover and order myself a proof first. The PDF file will initially be free, and probably remain free for a month or two at least. If I do price it, eventually, it will never be very expensive.
Once the print edition is in to Lulu and I'm in a holding pattern for the proof, I'll start figuring out what I need to retain and what I need to strip in order to get it Kindle (and other ebook-readers) ready.
Picking up speed, now, at least for the moment. It was really cool to page through the PDF file and look at a collective year's worth of work laid out so nicely...
Or something :D It's not for sale yet. I uploaded the final draft of Nameless to Lulu this morning, in order to get the dimensions for the cover (you can't know the exact size of a wraparound cover until you know the thickness of the spine). I faked up a cover just to get through from the "you're making a book" stage to the "here's what it will cost" stage.
My battle cry is TRANSPARENCY! and so here is some detail up front:
Nameless will be 216 pages full-count, with 208 of those being text (the rest is cover, flyleaf, backleaf, etc). It includes fourteen chapters and a postscript. The final product will measure 6"x9", about the size of any softcover novel (larger than a paperback, smaller than a hardback). It carries the Extribulum Press imprint in the copyright information and is marked as a First Edition. It will not carry an ISBN, though there will eventually be a second printing that will.
The cost to print the book is $8.82 -- that's the cut that Lulu takes. It's not as cheap as I'd like, but I also want the book to be a little more durable than the mass-market paperback option, which would run $6.58 but use publisher-grade paper and a weird size. If I discover someday that I have spare time on my hands (AHAHAHAAHAHHAHAHA), I might reformat the file for mass-market and do a paperback release.
Given the price, the added cost of postage, and the fact that, you know, I have a day job and don't need to make my fortune on this, I will probably be setting the price for Nameless around $10. I'm still mulling this over.
The PDF of the final cut is completed, but I'm going to make it available simultaneously with the release of the hardcopy, so it'll be a week or two before that happens. I need to design and upload the cover and order myself a proof first. The PDF file will initially be free, and probably remain free for a month or two at least. If I do price it, eventually, it will never be very expensive.
Once the print edition is in to Lulu and I'm in a holding pattern for the proof, I'll start figuring out what I need to retain and what I need to strip in order to get it Kindle (and other ebook-readers) ready.
Picking up speed, now, at least for the moment. It was really cool to page through the PDF file and look at a collective year's worth of work laid out so nicely...
