Comments | calm_waters: self publishing

calm_waters

self publishing

Mar 21, 2007 03:15

hours and hours of labor. that is what self publishing means ( Read more... )

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syntheticmuse March 21 2007, 10:50:48 UTC

so i'm curious. how are you putting your book together?

i did a chapbook a while back & essentially set it up using a word processing program. then i printed the poems & table of contents & stuff on normal paper & the cover on cardboard stock. binding was basically stapling everything together. ;-)
s.

calm_waters March 21 2007, 11:46:30 UTC

yes. the staples. i plan on utilizing that ingenious invention as well.

i hand wrote the poems. i'm also using a lot of drawings so there's the scanning and the printing and then eventually maybe tomorrow or the next day i'll get to the photocopying part. i'm pretty excited about that part. i hope it all runs swimmingly. i think i am done for tonight. i mean... i don't really want to be but i've a just a few more things to write cut and paste and i am mentally way out the window right now. i've had too much caffeine and don't really feel like i can sleep yet. grumblebounce.

syntheticmuse March 21 2007, 18:15:30 UTC

ahh, okies, so that's where the scissors & glue come in. ;-)

best of luck. oh & welcome back to pdx.
s.

syntheticmuse March 21 2007, 19:16:34 UTC

I know this might be kinda lame, but if you want I think I have a copy of in design laying around. It is a layout program(and has a great text-editor). You'll be able to change all the kerning and leading so that everything fits really nicely. All you'll need is a scanner(if you want hand written stuff) and a computer. You could even build up a font of your own handwriting(really easy and awesome to be able to type in your own handwriting). Since you're already scanning and whatnot, you'll be able to make the book look a bit better ( ... )

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