In Atlas, Broken, Henry comes across a cricket in his backyard, chirruping merrily at the moon. The next day, he finds it savagely gutted by ants. I’m not an expert when it comes to the life-cycle of crickets. Where I […]
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Easter Eggs -Triumphs and Failures
Running with the purple and gold theme, I made up a few more eggs and painted them blue, graduating to white at the bottom. Then came the white vine squiggles, with round balls on the ends of white flicks. Finally, […]
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Easter Eggs – 2016
Easter caught me by surprise this year. Had grand plans to have everything prepped and ready, then I looked down for a second. Boom! It’s the 21st of March. How did that happen without anyone noticing? The theme this year: […]
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Lulu – Approval & GlobalREACH
After you’ve made your project, pushed up your manuscript and made up your cover, your book is pretty much ready to distribute. If you’ve selected the option to have Lulu push your book for you, then there’s just two things […]
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Lulu – Cover Uploading
Left you hanging on the uploading of the manuscript. My apologies. Had to get foreign character printing fixed on Epson printers. Long story, don’t ask. The Cover This is where your hard work shaping the cover will pay off. You’ve […]
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Lulu – Uploading!
Hey! You’re on the home stretch! You’ve got everything in place, now you need to upload your bits and pieces. At this stage, you should have: A Lulu account set up A Project in Lulu for your book. Your converted […]
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Lulu – Back Cover & Spine
When you have finished converting your front cover, you need to slap your forehead and say, “Oh, right!” Why? Because, unlike eBooks, real books have a spine and a back cover. Considerations You’ve got three options when it comes to […]
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Lulu – The Cover
Pushing the digital version of your book to hardcopy requires a revision of your front cover. You’ve knocked your cover up. You are pretty chuffed with it because, hey, everything is just as it should be. Pixels are, after all, […]
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Lulu – Tidy up, Double Check and Export
We’ve been converting our digital eBook to hardcopy. From the get go, there have been changes, mostly around the front matter and the formatting. We’ve added a copyright page, a table of contents, added numbering, and it’s looking good. What’s […]
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Lulu – Page Numbering & Chapters
If you have a table of contents, one of requirements is that the numbers of the chapters must match perfectly. However, there isn’t much point having a table of contents with page numbers if you don’t have page numbers. Introducing: […]
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