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Hilltown goes live
Mar. 12th, 2007 08:13 pm
...sort of.
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tephralynn is a genius. We were having trouble getting the cover image, the text, and the black bands above and below the image to our liking in Lulu's good but rather inflexible cover creator wizard. She came up with the obvious (in retrospect) idea of creating one image including text, picture, black bars.. all of it.. and putting that across the entire cover. This is a fine example of my favorite definition of genius-- something that is intuitively obvious AFTER somebody else first thinks of it and points it out to you.
I batted together the rest of the cover in Lulu's wizard.
It's at http://stores.lulu.com/store.php?fAcctID=933815
The hardcover selling for twenty-odd bucks and the .pdf download for $2.50. Actually, I've got the costs marked up so I get $2.00 per copy. $2.00 for the hardcover. $2.00 for the download. By this weekend I'll probably have a paperback edition offered too, and I'll set the price so I make $2.00 on THAT. AAAAAAAAAND remember that once http://www.flankers-tale.com is fully operational, I intend to have all the stories available to read for free there also. I hope that nobody will ever HAVE to pay for reading my stuff unless they want to.
Now, be warned-- I have ordered the first copy of the book myself, and it's going to take fifteen frikin days to print it out and get it here. So I have not yet been able to go through it looking for problems and mistakes. What's out there now is the rough, raw, rude, crude, disgusting and probably bug-filled beta test version. I'm flattered if you think you really MUST have a hardcover copy, but it might be wise to wait a bit.
I had enough fun beating my head against the word processor that if there are three letters of Times New Roman in amongst all the rest of the text, they can stay there forever, far as I'm concerned now. But anything major I find, or you find for me, I can fix easily enough. So don't hesitate to let me know if something's wrong.
tephralynn is a genius. We were having trouble getting the cover image, the text, and the black bands above and below the image to our liking in Lulu's good but rather inflexible cover creator wizard. She came up with the obvious (in retrospect) idea of creating one image including text, picture, black bars.. all of it.. and putting that across the entire cover. This is a fine example of my favorite definition of genius-- something that is intuitively obvious AFTER somebody else first thinks of it and points it out to you.I batted together the rest of the cover in Lulu's wizard.
It's at http://stores.lulu.com/store.php?fAcctID=933815
The hardcover selling for twenty-odd bucks and the .pdf download for $2.50. Actually, I've got the costs marked up so I get $2.00 per copy. $2.00 for the hardcover. $2.00 for the download. By this weekend I'll probably have a paperback edition offered too, and I'll set the price so I make $2.00 on THAT. AAAAAAAAAND remember that once http://www.flankers-tale.com is fully operational, I intend to have all the stories available to read for free there also. I hope that nobody will ever HAVE to pay for reading my stuff unless they want to.
Now, be warned-- I have ordered the first copy of the book myself, and it's going to take fifteen frikin days to print it out and get it here. So I have not yet been able to go through it looking for problems and mistakes. What's out there now is the rough, raw, rude, crude, disgusting and probably bug-filled beta test version. I'm flattered if you think you really MUST have a hardcover copy, but it might be wise to wait a bit.
I had enough fun beating my head against the word processor that if there are three letters of Times New Roman in amongst all the rest of the text, they can stay there forever, far as I'm concerned now. But anything major I find, or you find for me, I can fix easily enough. So don't hesitate to let me know if something's wrong.
