{"id":295,"date":"2013-11-24T21:37:42","date_gmt":"2013-11-25T02:37:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.larryallenonline.com\/?p=295"},"modified":"2014-01-20T11:40:14","modified_gmt":"2014-01-20T16:40:14","slug":"cranking-up-the-presses-slowly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.larryallenonline.com\/?p=295","title":{"rendered":"Cranking up the presses&#8230; slowly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, I know, I could upload a copy of <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Saimon&#8217;s Gift<\/span> to Amazon tonight and become a self-published author almost immediately. But I want to do this with at least a little bit of class and style. That means copy-editing, finding a cover artist, and tweaking the manuscript to make the story as good as&#8230; well, maybe not as good as possible, but certainly as good as <i>I <\/i>can make it. That will take time, and more beta reading. There are also the small matters of writing a blurb for my author&#8217;s page, a dedication page for the story, buying ISBN numbers, and on and on. It can be a bit intimidating. But no piece by itself is particularly challenging, and I&#8217;m confident that once I establish a road map, the second, and third, and (so) forth will come relatively easy.<\/p>\n<p>The first cover artist I found had a promising portfolio, but the combination of a seven time zone gap and a language barrier made it difficult to get anything accomplished. Probably I could have made it work, with enough effort, but I&#8217;d rather spend that effort elsewhere. I&#8217;ve identified one closer to home who is more expensive, but has other powers and abilities that I think will make it worthwhile.<\/p>\n<p>ISBNs are another issue &#8211; I can&#8217;t quite bring myself to pay the absurd small quantity price, but I can&#8217;t quite bring myself to spring for the total cost of a large block of numbers either. Hopefully I can find others interested in sharing the burden,. so we can form an impromptu publishing company, and share a block.<\/p>\n<p>Etc.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, lots of trivia. In a way, it&#8217;s kind of like manufacturing a high-tech product. The design is one thing. But then there&#8217;s manufacturing, distribution, packaging, materials, inspection, and on and on. I&#8217;m slowly getting to understand what <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hughhowey.com\/my-advice-to-aspiring-authors\" target=\"_blank\">Mr. Howey<\/a> meant when he said that those who treat self-publishing as a business are succeeding at it.<\/p>\n<p>Silly me. I thought the hard part was going to be the actual writing.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, I know, I could upload a copy of Saimon&#8217;s Gift to Amazon tonight and become a self-published author almost immediately. But I want to do this with at least a little bit of class and style. That means copy-editing, finding a cover artist, and tweaking the manuscript to make the story as good as&#8230; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.larryallenonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.larryallenonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.larryallenonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.larryallenonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.larryallenonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=295"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.larryallenonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":350,"href":"https:\/\/www.larryallenonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295\/revisions\/350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.larryallenonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.larryallenonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.larryallenonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}