If you want layout, editing, proofreading and/or cover design, those are different departments and extra costs.Īnd yes, page numbers make a difference - both minimum and maximum, and this can affect book layout, lay flat options, spine design, etc. By this I mean they will expect a completed and formatted book and cover - usually in. It’s also important to understand that if you’re working independently with a printer, their role begins and ends with printing.
Before ordering 500 or 1000 or… copies ( 250 is often a minimum order for softcover, 500 for hardcover), however, have a good understanding of how will be responsible for storage, shipping orders, etc. With offset printing, almost all of the cost goes into making the printing plates, so making reprints ( 2nd edition) is comparatively much cheaper than the initial run and there’s less price difference between printing 500 or 1000 copies, for example. Printing costs will eat 90%+ of what you might reasonably expect as a retail price. For any budding authors out there I Can say that making a profit with digital printing is pretty much impossible. Michelle: Having been involved with both digital (print on demand) and offset printing - I can certainly agree with you that independent publishing is neither simple nor easy. Here, it’s early spring, so the temperature hasn’t gone above 80, and is frequently 70ish.
I hope everyone is surviving the various heat waves. I think the only people who won’t scream at the price are Australian >.<.Īnd also: Managing editors should be paid way way way way more.
DECEMBER NECK DEEP COVER FULL
Ingram now does full dust-jacketed hardcovers that are otherwise the same as normal trade hardcovers. But again, because it’s not offset printing, it will cost way more than a normal hardcover. My alpha reader wanted a PoD hardcover, so there will probably be that option. Because it absolutely matters how long it is T_T.) (Everyone said it doesn’t matter how long the book is, it can still be printed! But those Everyones clearly meant: it doesn’t matter how short the book is. And it will probably be more expensive than publisher trade paperbacks because it will be 826 pages long. Print will be available as Print On Demand (which is how Memory of Stone was done), and it will therefore be available in a trade paperback. As you’re all aware, the book is being self-published, and having gone through much of (but not all of) the process to publish, people who tell you that self-publishing is easy, and it’s a great way to make more money if you do it yourself, are clearly not breathing the same air I am. At this point, I’m hoping for a sometime-in-October release date. Does it bend properly? No? (insert colorful phrase here).Īs for Hunter’s Redoubt, I have sent files to the audiobook narrator, and am working my way through the proofreader’s corrections and adding them to the book. I’m told that when it’s fully healed, it will once again bend properly - so that’s my new test. The baby toe (I broke two) was totally fine according to X‑rays. My toe has improved enough it doesn’t bother me much, but according to X‑rays taken a week before I left, it has not fully healed yet - it’s an oblique break, and apparently those are worse.
Shards of Glass is due out at the end of November, so I’m fielding a few questions about that - but my head is fully entangled in the Cast novel, so Shards feels like it was written years ago (it wasn’t). After which I will revise for submission, and then submit. And when I say finished, I mean: finished first draft. I hope to be finished before I leave Brisbane. I have an unfortunately tight deadline, and I’m neck deep into Cast in Atonement, which is not yet done. I’m writing to you all from Australia, where I have come on my writing retreat, which used to be an annual thing until Covid.
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