Paper Book Writer ©
By
Michael Casey
I closed my Linkedin yesterday, I’ll be back there when I’ve got
more to say. As luck would have it as one door closed another opened. Amazon
sent me a mail about Paper Book Writing, sounds like a Paul McCartney song fest
so far.
As you know I do have 7 books on Amazon Kindle
already and I had been sharing my gems with folks on Linkedin. So what Amazon
offered is of interest to me, no fee setup for print on demand. Basically you
upload your book and they do the rest. Its print on demand, no pile of books
waiting to be remaindered, or sent to book heaven at the Works.
You can get your fingers burnt if you go the self-publish
route, Amazon’s way you just collect the rewards, assuming folks like your
book. Modern printing technology means Amazon can print what’s ordered and away
you go. Their story is about a meter reader who has also sold a few thousand
books, and no his name is not Rita, but I’m sure he’s lovely.
I mentioned this to my girls, so I said they could
do the front covers, that was last night. This morning they descended to breakfast
with A3 artists’ pads already with their designs. Now that is both touching,
and wonderful. I had to get them to take their pads off the breakfast coffee
table we use, or eggs and margarine stains would have been all over their
designs.
Small daughter did The Butcher The Baker and The
Undertaker design, and big sister did 300 and Not OUT cover design. I was really pleased with the results. They
may only be 10 and 12 but their art skills are already fantastic. If Paul
McCartney wants a cover design for his next album please get in touch.
I had to explain that our scanner only went up to
A4, so the girls wiped away the egg and margarine from their faces, then
reduced their designs to A4 on fresh paper. This was an intense period of
creativity, so while the girls sustained themselves with the last of the Easter
eggs, mum was talking to grannie in Shanghai, and I was entering the book
details on Amazon’s Create Space.
One book is 616 pages in pdf and the other is 400
odd pages, so once they are all uploaded in a day or so you can all see the
girls’ artistic designs. If you remember the Tom Sharpe book covers then their
designs are similar to that.
There are 5 other books that I could upload, so
let’s see how my big ones go down first. 1000 pages of me may be enough to
start with, there are maybe 1100 more pages of my stuff, my writing.
So this has been the Casey family activity for
today, Arthur hasn’t been too bad today either, Arthur is the name I give to my
arthritis. After today I’ll just say
Arthur, and assume you all know what I’m talking about.
I will try and add my girls’ designs to the end of
this post, so you know what you are all looking for on Amazon. Then I’ll really
be a paperback writer.
https://www.createspace.com/pub/simplesitesearch.search.do?sitesearch_query=+mr+michael+g+casey&sitesearch_type=STORE
to buy my print books on Paper
to buy my print books on Paper
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