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How to make a book
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Happy Boxing Day, one and all. I hope you got all the books you wanted yesterday.
I surprised my Well-Read Wife with a book that I made for her, through a company called Blurb. You can visit them here. You download, for free, the software to build a book. You do everything on your PC. Then you upload it back to them, they print it, and mail it to you.
I can recommend this outfit (and I’m not getting anything back from them, I promise). I thought the interface was pretty easy to use, and the quality of the finished book was everything I could want: a real hardback cover, nicely bound, a paper dust jacket, quality paper for the pages. My finished book was 11 inches by 13 inches, 64 pages, and cost me about $45 for one copy. (You can get multiple copies.)
You can do about any kind of book, too. You could write your memoirs, 100,000 words of the story of you, slap a picture of yourself on the cover, and give copies away to everyone at work. Or you could take all your vacation photos in jpg form and make a very cool and different scrapbook.
Anyway, it was a good experience. And what was my book for my Well-Read Wife? You know, not everything has to be shared in a blog.
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By Jeff
December 26, 2007 12:14 PM | Link to this
Phil,
you’re leaving yourself open to a TON of comments there! :P
I actually like the idea, and I think I’m going to run with it myself.
But Mr. Wooten got me thinking about people who have made a difference in my life, and it turns out I actually know a published author you may want to check out. (Believe it or not, this was one of the ‘group of 6th grade students’ I mention in his ‘name 5 influential people’ blog!)
The guy’s name is Joshua Mauney, and he wrote a Notebook-type story called The Rocking Chair.
From the Publisher:
“Will Jackson Bryce ever return home? For Kristen Taylor, the answer can’t come soon enough, as she waits for him there in The Rocking Chair. New author Joshua S. Mauney has captured the tone and emotion of love in the south. Kristen Taylor is home from college when she receives an unexpected phone call from Jackson Bryce, the young man that had captured her heart four summers earlier. She finds herself waiting for him on the back porch while her mind retraces the events of a summer that grew a love she knew would last forever. Will he ever return? Find out as she waits for him there in The Rocking Chair.”
By h endicott
December 31, 2007 11:41 AM | Link to this
Nice article www.sawgrassbooks.com Go OBAMA !!