24 March
At long
last I have made an effort to get my book Finding
Our Way self-published on Lulu. It was available on Amazon as a Kindle file
but none of my books are now available simply because of the need to register
for tax in the States. I can’t be bothered seeing as I only had 6 cents in
royalties anyway. So they removed my books from sale, even though they are
listed. The problem for me was that having used Amazon’s CreateSpace to publish
them, they were printed and shipped from the States, which could take ages to
arrive and added a good bit to the cost. At least with Lulu I can get them
printed here in the UK, much better all round. They will be available for
Kindle too.
I have
tried to download one of Lulu’s templates to format the book, but it needs to
be unzipped before I can use it. And that is where I came unstuck yet again. Me
old mate the Rochdale Sage sent me a program to do the same thing as WinZip,
but I forgot about that and clicked on the option to only use WinZip. Now I
have to pay up for it. What a silly so-n-so I am. Ha well … Once that is done
the rest should be fairly straight forward and I shall be looking at doing the
other four I have ready.
One
person read The Mission for me and
said I needed a good editor. Another person read it and pointed out that I had
mixed up two characters but other than that it was fine. And here’s part of the
problem, my friends; how can any writer be sure just which editor is best for
them when writing is so subjective? Local we have the Hussy who was born close
to Dorktown. There’s a sizable group of folks who love her work, I can’t stand
the stuff. See what I mean? Each story is at the mercy of each reader.
Cost is
another issue. I tried one of the free edits for a certain word count for Shipshape, and was told that the cost of
the full edit for the whole of 53,000 words would be £200. But when the time
came, they added another £75 to the price. I wasn’t happy about that, so the
file sits here waiting for who knows what. A friend of friend has read through
it and made a number of comments that have led to changes being made. But it is
still here doing nowt. I’ve wondered just lately how unknown writers manage to fund
such edits, cos right now I can’t afford it. It’s a good job I like writing then
eh.
Jan has
just informed of something on face book; it seems that Cadbury’s is banning the
word Easter from there Easter eggs, in case it offends other religions. My
first thought was that we should stop buying their goods until they see sense
and put the word back. Of course, that has probably come from its yanky owners,
a bigger pack of liars and twisters ever to disgrace our shores. I once tried
some Hershey chocolate, uck! Horrible stuff. The stuff sold abroad isn’t all
that nice either. So here in the UK, if you want nice tasting chocky bar, you’re
stuck with Cadbury’s … or are you?
I like Turkish
Delight and the Fry’s chocolate creams, but that is now under the Cadbury’s
banner. I’ve just looked at the Kraft
website and there is no mention of them owning Cadbury’s, so I wonder why? Cormack
is one I don’t like, but what about Galaxy? That one is nice and it’s owned by
Mars (https://www.galaxychocolate.co.uk).
I think I shall be moving over to Galaxy instead.
Photo
time …
Yes, this one, a big X for Cadbury’s big fail! It’s actually in Coventry
outside the transport museum and has something to do with Sir Frink Whittle.
Today’s
funny …
What do you call a Scotsman with a castle on
his head?
Fort William.
Fort William.
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