Archive: Lulu category
After a (far too) long absence, I've finally published a new Riverglen Press book, Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde:
I mainly made it as a test to see how Lulu's pocket size books ...
I'm pleased to announce that Phantastes is finally available for PDF download from Riverglen Press:
I'm not really worrying (or caring) about making a Lulu edition at this point. Maybe in a couple of weeks I won't be as frustrated with them ...
I'm more frustrated with Lulu. ~sigh~ Apparently you can't track book sales if you don't have a creator revenue set (i.e., if you're selling the books at cost). You can see how many have been sold total, but there's no breakground. Bah.
So, I've had to set a ...
I was reading Cool Tools today and came across an article on Blurb and Lulu. Blurb sounds really neat, and it's much cheaper than iPhoto (and the quality is apparently better than Lulu for color). I ordered How to Make a Book from them, since it's ...
I'm thinking about making Riverglen Press a PDF-only gig. Lulu's good, to be sure, but I like having more control over the output -- with Lulu my choices are quite limited, and it's hard to get the desired result. (Mainly with the covers; the body has generally been ...
My proof copy of A Christmas Carol arrived today, accompanied by a few problems:
Problem #1: Lulu doesn't like InDesign's transparency, as you can see from the back cover (it should be roughly the same red as the front cover). The solution: I opened ...
Finished A Christmas Carol today and ordered my proof copy through Lulu. I ended up completely redoing the crutches from scratch, since I'd learned a lot about Blender mesh modelling since I first made them, and I knew I could do much better. I also replaced the back ...
Because proofreading Phantastes is taking longer than I expected, I'm going to publish a Riverglen Press edition of Dickens' A Christmas Carol in the meantime. It's shorter (~100 pages), which means I can finish it quickly and order a hardcover edition while I toil away at Phantastes. If ...
Turns out that the Project Gutenberg text of Phantastes has a lot of typos, at least when comparing against my 1916 edition, so I have to proof it even more than usual. Oh well. :) It's a wee bit time-consuming, so the book won't be done as soon ...
Finished copyfitting Phantastes today, and started drafting the cover:
After a final proofread through, I'll finish the cover and send off for my proof copy. At this rate (two weeks a book) I could plow through 25 or so books a year. But that's ...
