Hilltown Done
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hafocI have received my draft copy of Hilltown, and I OKd it. If you want to buy a copy of the book, or the .pdf download, there are three options available to you at http://stores.lulu.com/store.php?fAcctID=933815 You can also get there via my website at http://www.flankers-tale.com
There's a .pdf download, a paperback, and a hardcover.
Now, if you want the hardcover, the best thing to do would probably be to order it from your local bookstore. They can get it for half the list price Lulu forces me to charge on their website. $18 plus a reasonable markup for the bookstore would be fair, in my opinion. $36 is not. Not that I would mind the $13 in profit I get if you buy the book at suggested retail via Lulu, but I ain't going to take it without warning you. You have been warned.
The rest of the things I get my usual $2 on. Or $1.98, if you ordered the hardcover through your local bookstore, but who is counting?
The only problem is that you can't order the hardcover through your local bookstore yet. I have approved the draft copy, but they have to send it to their distributor, who has to check through and make sure I didn't do something that makes it unsuitable for publishing. (It turns out this is more complex than I had thought, so perhaps Lulu wasn't jerking me around after all. The distributor actually prints out books using their own printers, so the fact that the book as printed by Lulu was OK doesn't automagically mean it will work; Lulu isn't set up for fast production, so it accepts just about ANY features of the .pdf standard, but the distributor's high speed printers only accept a simplified subset.) If there are problems I'll have to revise, but I can handle it.
And then they have to get the book into Bowker's Books in Print catalog, so that your local bookstore can find it to order it. It is going to take up to six weeks to get there.
But. I think HILLTOWN IS DONE. I can archive it. I can make safety copies to store here, in my office, and to mail to the longsuffering Athelind and Quelonzia. It is done.
I've never finished a book before.
It is at once a joyous occasion, and a sad one. Sending one of my little mind-children out into the world to seek his fortune. Good luck, little guy.
There's a .pdf download, a paperback, and a hardcover.
Now, if you want the hardcover, the best thing to do would probably be to order it from your local bookstore. They can get it for half the list price Lulu forces me to charge on their website. $18 plus a reasonable markup for the bookstore would be fair, in my opinion. $36 is not. Not that I would mind the $13 in profit I get if you buy the book at suggested retail via Lulu, but I ain't going to take it without warning you. You have been warned.
The rest of the things I get my usual $2 on. Or $1.98, if you ordered the hardcover through your local bookstore, but who is counting?
The only problem is that you can't order the hardcover through your local bookstore yet. I have approved the draft copy, but they have to send it to their distributor, who has to check through and make sure I didn't do something that makes it unsuitable for publishing. (It turns out this is more complex than I had thought, so perhaps Lulu wasn't jerking me around after all. The distributor actually prints out books using their own printers, so the fact that the book as printed by Lulu was OK doesn't automagically mean it will work; Lulu isn't set up for fast production, so it accepts just about ANY features of the .pdf standard, but the distributor's high speed printers only accept a simplified subset.) If there are problems I'll have to revise, but I can handle it.
And then they have to get the book into Bowker's Books in Print catalog, so that your local bookstore can find it to order it. It is going to take up to six weeks to get there.
But. I think HILLTOWN IS DONE. I can archive it. I can make safety copies to store here, in my office, and to mail to the longsuffering Athelind and Quelonzia. It is done.
I've never finished a book before.
It is at once a joyous occasion, and a sad one. Sending one of my little mind-children out into the world to seek his fortune. Good luck, little guy.
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Date: 2007-06-18 02:06 pm (UTC)