I’m quite tired and so I’ll keep this short.*
The bound proofs of The Scarred God arrived today. I have to say, in spite of a couple self-inflicted errors, I’m quite pleased with how they came out, I know these are just a more practical, cost effective way of running off copies of the manuscript for test readers but it’s really nice to hold something tangible.
Anyway, I was really very impressed with lulu.com and it proved quite a bit cheaper than printing out the A4 manuscript that was being used at the beginning. Here’s a dodgy webcam image:
The cover is from art by Tom Loback on a GNU free license. I have not used it for commercial purposes.
* Just to be clear I haven’t decided to self-publish, this merely represents the easiest medium for my test readers to review the text. It was this or five A4 bricks of 350 pages. Should TSG sell you’ll be the second (after G) to know.**
** Unlikely but you never know.***
*** I should really go to bed.
That’s actually a very good idea. You also have something impressive to show off while waiting for the big deal.
Hey!
Looks very impressive, can’t wait to have a sneaky peek myself while Matt is reading it – don’t forget to send it with G when she comes down next week!!
Very cool Neil. Must be nice to hold a book with your name printed on the cover, even if you printed it yourself.
Cheers all:
Gareth – Yeah, it’s nice to be able to give it to long suffering family to read and it was considerably cheaper than running off copies from the printer.
Laura – of course. Feel free to read it yourself, if you want.
Strugglingwriter – it is pretty cool. A good motivational tool.