Last year I published Jeff's novella, 'Desert Creek'. It is available for sale via www.lulu.com and also on Amazon.com as a Kindle download where it has sold two copies! At $0.99 each that isn't going to provide Jeff with a retirement nest egg but at least two people liked the cover and blurb enough to buy it and that is a start.
I found publishing this book even more of a learning curve than publishing 'This Poor Collection', Jeff's collection of poems. Formatting the book and working the font and point size proved interesting. There were also a couple of books printed with the 'barking dogs' in them that were edited out of the final edition. I also changed the font from a typewrite like Courier to a Times New Roman and saved a few dozen pages also.
One vital lesson not so much learned as underlined was that without marketing and publicity, even the greatest stories will go unread, unbought and unknown about. The distribution and sales end is the bit the publishing houses bring to the collaboration and they can turn a loser into a best seller or without them, a work of literature into a book int he two buck bargain bin.
I found publishing this book even more of a learning curve than publishing 'This Poor Collection', Jeff's collection of poems. Formatting the book and working the font and point size proved interesting. There were also a couple of books printed with the 'barking dogs' in them that were edited out of the final edition. I also changed the font from a typewrite like Courier to a Times New Roman and saved a few dozen pages also.
One vital lesson not so much learned as underlined was that without marketing and publicity, even the greatest stories will go unread, unbought and unknown about. The distribution and sales end is the bit the publishing houses bring to the collaboration and they can turn a loser into a best seller or without them, a work of literature into a book int he two buck bargain bin.
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