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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Lulu – ISBN, Copyright and Table of Contents
Last post I showed you how to begin converting your eBook to a paperback. Choose the font, format, etc. and begin by separating out your first page from the rest. Now fix up the rest of the front matter. Copyright […]
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ISBNs and All That Jazz
When you publish your eBook, you can assign an ISBN to it. You know that butt ugly barcode that’s sitting on the back of a book? That’s the one. In digital format, you don’t need to worry about having a […]
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eBook to Hardcopy – Lulu
The Print On Demand option is very attractive for indie authors. We’re not rolling in dough. We haven’t got the patience or time to go running after a publisher or go chatting to distributors to please purchase these titles. We […]
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Digital Versus Hardcopy
Getting your book up in digital is exciting. Once you’ve put an ISBN against it and pushed it to the numerous distributors, it can be found across the net. Wow! Funny thing is, while it’s awesome having your stuff up […]
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Format, Distribution, Promotion…
Publishing Jolimont Street Ghost should have been a ‘crack a beer and take a week or two off moment’. After all, the hard stuff is done. Writing and editing and proofing and all of that stuff. Done. Front cover and […]
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Jolimont Street Ghost – Free at last!
Tada! Please find Jolimont Street Ghost at Smashwords, yours for free, with my compliments, in whatever format you like. Cue the fireworks and open the champagne. OK, maybe I’ll just crack a beer and watch Hellboy. You see, I wanted […]
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