To publish or not to publish?

lovecraft68 said:

So 15k would be 30 or so pages?

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Just over 50 with 5"x8" size, which is the size of my 'professionally' published book.

sr71plt said:

I don't think you're going to get a paperback out of 15K. The minimum I've put to paperback was 25K, and the publisher had to do some fudging to make the minimum required to paperback that.

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I wasn't expecting to either! But it was an interesting thing to do on a Saturday night. The ISBN was free, so it hasn't cost me anything except for time and the odd bit of cursing at Gimp.

redzinger said:

Just over 50 with 5"x8" size, which is the size of my 'professionally' published book.



I wasn't expecting to either! But it was an interesting thing to do on a Saturday night. The ISBN was free, so it hasn't cost me anything except for time and the odd bit of cursing at Gimp.

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Glad you managed to get it set up.

I'll say one thing here. I used to be a huge booster for free alternatives like Gimp. Then one day, I saw Photoshop Elements on sale ( I think it was around $40 ) and thought, "What the hell."

I'll never go back. Everything is a hundred times easier in Photoshop, and it's no more difficult to learn than Gimp.

Very thoughtful and generous!

Over_Red said:

Alright. I just self-published two months ago, so I can relate to your situation!

I waffled a bit, too. In short: do it. It's totally worth it. Kinda hectic and more work than you think it'll be, but a fantastic experience altogether.

Over Red, that was a very informative, thoughtful, and generous answer! Thanks for sharing the information and some of your personal experience. I have no interest in publishing at present, but I copied your advice for that "just in case" scenario. Thanks again for taking the time to share.

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RejectReality said:

I'll say one thing here. I used to be a huge booster for free alternatives like Gimp. Then one day, I saw Photoshop Elements on sale ( I think it was around $40 ) and thought, "What the hell."

I'll never go back. Everything is a hundred times easier in Photoshop, and it's no more difficult to learn than Gimp.

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Yeah, I feel the same way about Paintshop Pro. It's so easy to do things.

Now, with this nagging at me I went back and looked up some things.

Create space will charge $385-at least that was the price two years ago, for formatting. Now I don;t know if that is standard or based on length, but I did have that number from them in an e-mail when I was asking them a lot of questions.

My wife paid Balboa an outrageous amount, one I wouldn't even want to post here and I told her not to but "they know Heayhouse!" seemed to make it worth all the money.

Her second and now third books are being done through createspace. So far I have refrained from "I told you so" but she has not owned up with "You were right"

Ah, marriage.

Please could someone in the US click on >this< link and confirm that the novel is free please?

On another screen, it's showing as $0.99 and another as $1.24.

Nope, $0.99.

Zeb_Carter said:

Nope, $0.99.

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Awww, bollocks. It's supposed to be free. Thanks for letting me know.