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Murphy’s Law – everything that can go wrong, will. This is pretty much life in general for me. But for some reason, this past week has been Murphy-free. Which is awesome.
My proof copy of the book came in! I can’t believe how nice it looks! I thought for sure I messed something up somewhere and I’d have to redo it all, but this is not the case! The print is crisp and even, and the materials are really nice quality. It feels like any book you’d pick up at a bookstore. It came packed in a box, wrapped up with a cardboard backing so it wouldn’t get destroyed in the mail, which is great. I was really afraid that it would just get tossed in a padded envelope or something and get bent up on the way here, but not so! In addition to that, shipping was really quick! After they produced the book, it only took two days to get here. I’m not sure if they’re that quick all the time, but I certainly can’t complain.
The only downside is that the price went up slightly when I made it public. I suppose that’s Lulu’s way of making back some of the money to pick up an ISBN and list it on Amazon and all that. Oh well. I tried. 🙁 Occasionally they put out discount codes, in which case I’ll post them here if anyone’s interested.
On the upside, though, the book now has an ISBN number and barcode, which means that you should be able to order it from other places like Amazon or an actual bookstore, although I get a bigger cut of royalties if you order it through Lulu. There’s also an e-book version available for practically nothing, if you’re into that kind of thing.
For now, you can find it on Lulu by clicking here. I’ll post up again when it’s listed on Amazon and B&N. The ISBN is 978-0-557-14877-6 which will help if you’re going to get it from a bookstore, but I’d wait at least a few weeks before trying that since I’m sure it’ll have to get added to a bunch of databases.
If you missed the last post, I was also interviewed earlier this week and that’s available here.
Just another slow-moving update, although I feel like we’re finally getting somewhere with this. Hooray for flashbacks.
It was a really busy weekend for me, but in addition to the million or so great things that happened, I also managed to find time to finish putting the book together! It’s officially done, uploaded to print, and I’m just waiting on a demo copy for myself to make sure everything turns out correctly. That should be here in a week or so. Many photos shall be had when it gets here, ohboy.
The final numbers work out that it costs about $12 +$3-ish shipping (US) which is a little bit higher than what I had hoped for, but I did add in a lot more extra stuff than I had originally planned to, so it sort of works out. It’s 96 pages total, collecting the first chapter of the comic, two minicomics I drew up specifically for this book, some additional art, and other commentary and nifty stuff. It’s sort of the equivalent of what you’d get if webcomics had DVD releases with director’s commentary and deleted scenes.
If you vote this week, you’ll get to see a full preview of the book cover! Click to vote!
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