Dear friends, I am so sorry to have left you hanging out there with no word from me. I caught the flue rather suddenly and have been off of the computer. We are feeling better and need to get back to you so I can share with you the next steps in publishing THE GOD GAMES: Legend of Kor. It looks like the next three months will be finishing formatting the book, getting it ready for a PDF file, learning about PDF files, getting a cover for the book designed, and going ahead with the publication. The book will be out in a soft-cover print book and as an e-book over most services including Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Kindle, and most other retailers.
I thought you might like to go on the run with me and maybe you will soon be publishing your own book.
I am a novice and so will probably sound like it at first, but I figure we will learn together.
First you have your manuscript and you revise it and revise it, and revise it, and on and on until you feel in your heart that you have done the very best that you can do. I am in step 1, at the very end of that process-which I begin to think will take me the rest of my life nit-picking over it-and am now typing out the final copy formatted the way they requested: Times New Roman 12, justified, single spaced, auto-hyphenated and no page numbers or, in my case, no header or footer.
At the same time I have designed a cover-let's see if I can pull it up for you:
But it is not a professional job and I will be paying $299.00 for a real artist to take my ideas and make them into a smooth work of art for a cover. But I think you have my general idea. Any comments or suggestions for change would be greatly appreciated.
Now, I have to draw up a business plan to present to my son who is going to help me afford such things as an artist and a new PDF program and to pay an agent and many office supplies. I am not sure how much all of the little incidentals is going to cost. The publisher is going to be the Outskirts Press, a division of Amazon.com.
So, today I will have to show how many books I will have to sell in order to cover expenses and support myself so I can continue writing. I must be able to show that a profit can be made to at least cover what I will be asking David for. Shouldn't be too hard, ha ha, but it is a very necessary starting place.
I am wildly happy that my book will soon be published and I would be glad to sign any book that you buy or send you an e-mail of thanks for your support. Look for an e-book copy to run $2.99 and a soft-cover print book to be between $9.99 and $15.99 depending on the cost of production of each volume.
THE GOD GAMES: Legend of Kor introduces four new energynauts that are sent by ONE (God) to answer the prayers of His children on the planet Kor, who are being threatened by Gog, the egomaniacal dictator of the green Selves. Gog is carrying out a genocide of the hated orange Wales and seeking to enslave the lavender Vouns and blue Emons. Can the energynauts bring peace to this shattered planet?
(Avatar meets the Holocaust)
Tomorrow we will look at the business plan and see if it sounds rational.
I thought you might like to go on the run with me and maybe you will soon be publishing your own book.
I am a novice and so will probably sound like it at first, but I figure we will learn together.
First you have your manuscript and you revise it and revise it, and revise it, and on and on until you feel in your heart that you have done the very best that you can do. I am in step 1, at the very end of that process-which I begin to think will take me the rest of my life nit-picking over it-and am now typing out the final copy formatted the way they requested: Times New Roman 12, justified, single spaced, auto-hyphenated and no page numbers or, in my case, no header or footer.
At the same time I have designed a cover-let's see if I can pull it up for you:
Now, I have to draw up a business plan to present to my son who is going to help me afford such things as an artist and a new PDF program and to pay an agent and many office supplies. I am not sure how much all of the little incidentals is going to cost. The publisher is going to be the Outskirts Press, a division of Amazon.com.
So, today I will have to show how many books I will have to sell in order to cover expenses and support myself so I can continue writing. I must be able to show that a profit can be made to at least cover what I will be asking David for. Shouldn't be too hard, ha ha, but it is a very necessary starting place.
I am wildly happy that my book will soon be published and I would be glad to sign any book that you buy or send you an e-mail of thanks for your support. Look for an e-book copy to run $2.99 and a soft-cover print book to be between $9.99 and $15.99 depending on the cost of production of each volume.
THE GOD GAMES: Legend of Kor introduces four new energynauts that are sent by ONE (God) to answer the prayers of His children on the planet Kor, who are being threatened by Gog, the egomaniacal dictator of the green Selves. Gog is carrying out a genocide of the hated orange Wales and seeking to enslave the lavender Vouns and blue Emons. Can the energynauts bring peace to this shattered planet?
(Avatar meets the Holocaust)
Tomorrow we will look at the business plan and see if it sounds rational.
No comments:
Post a Comment