This started as an idea to write an introduction to the study of human lying. This book was considered by Penguin in New York but they felt they could not sell enough copies to make their money back.
I decided to go it alone.
Calvin Innes agreed through contact at linked-in to create eight cartoons to lift any of the deeper sections of a book about the genetics of lying, and in 2010 we put the book up at Createspace.
For six months I found reviewers were mixed but they were there, and radio shows talked to me and one in Ireland contacted me.
I could see the process worked but I didn't like the fact then that Creatspace didn't publish directly in the UK. It does now. Their covers were a little stronger than lulu, their system straightforward but people were saying that anything with lulu or createspace or any of the online digital publishers, were a turn off as far as readers were concerned because they were bywords for poor proofing.
I re-read my essay and have to say they were right.
The first lesson I learned. It isn't worth doing all this work to put before the public something that has not been fully proofed and edited. If you cannot get that done your work will flounder.
I am now preparing this essay for epub format as at £1 and downloadable it will attract more readers than the £6.50 createspace book. I sold 20 books, despite one of the radio shows in the US having two million listeners, and I am owed money by Amazon.
But it had made me work, it had shown me ways to go about publishing and it lead me to join forums, read those who were doing this and learn the ropes. For that reason alone it had been well worth doing for everything that followed was learned during that six months.
I decided to go it alone.
Calvin Innes agreed through contact at linked-in to create eight cartoons to lift any of the deeper sections of a book about the genetics of lying, and in 2010 we put the book up at Createspace.
For six months I found reviewers were mixed but they were there, and radio shows talked to me and one in Ireland contacted me.
I could see the process worked but I didn't like the fact then that Creatspace didn't publish directly in the UK. It does now. Their covers were a little stronger than lulu, their system straightforward but people were saying that anything with lulu or createspace or any of the online digital publishers, were a turn off as far as readers were concerned because they were bywords for poor proofing.
I re-read my essay and have to say they were right.
The first lesson I learned. It isn't worth doing all this work to put before the public something that has not been fully proofed and edited. If you cannot get that done your work will flounder.
I am now preparing this essay for epub format as at £1 and downloadable it will attract more readers than the £6.50 createspace book. I sold 20 books, despite one of the radio shows in the US having two million listeners, and I am owed money by Amazon.
But it had made me work, it had shown me ways to go about publishing and it lead me to join forums, read those who were doing this and learn the ropes. For that reason alone it had been well worth doing for everything that followed was learned during that six months.