It’s easy being an independent author. You get to write what you want to write. The subject matter is up to you. You don’t have a big bad corporation leaning over your shoulder, shaking its head saying, “No, no, no. […]
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Of Crickets and Ants
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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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 – 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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Lulu – Printing Requirements
You’ve got your eBook up and ready to be made into a print book. Bully for you! This is exciting stuff. You’ve done all the hard yards, now it’s just the tedious (but important) yards. Lulu insists that, if you’re […]
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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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