I “met” you on kindle last week during the whole “how to self-publishing with kickstarter” chat. I really liked your video about self-publishing with lulu, createspace and lightning source. Very informative.

I really respect how you’ve been able to keep costs down regarding the publication of your books.

Very well done.

Ps. I think I may have later on come across as a bit crass when I was talking about “ownership” rights and ISBN numbers. I only meant that, one of the reasons I want to full self-publish, without going through these other companies, is because of the amount of money they can make off of you by publishing through them.

I am willing to lose the 30% to go through Amazon, but I’d rather hire out the rest of the work through freelancers and keep as much of the profit as I can, without sacrificing quality.

Anyway, keep up the good work. You’re on your way. Also, if you ever want to blog about your writing adventures, drop me a line. I get about 6,000-10,000 visitors to my lit site per month. Nothing great, but it’s something.

Best,
Yamina

I realize the “paying gigs” take precedence and totally understand, ya gota pay the bills

Do you , or could you, use any beta-reader help? I.E. free editing (hint hint )

I have plenty of free time on my hands and I already do beta for a few other authors.

Take care and again, Well done Sir

I was just about to reply to your email, but I’ll reply here depending on which one you check first, too.

To question #1, I made the regions black so they would have some “substance”. In other words, they would have something in the layer of a defined size and shape to select; without something in the layer, you couldn’t select the shape in the layer to use later for justifying other elements.

To question #2, yes, there are a number of other steps involved. So I don’t have to rewrite it here and since I don’t have my list of steps handy just now, I’ll provide the link to Aaron Shepherd’s blog: http://www.newselfpublishing.com/TotalInkLimit.html.

I do plan to make a video tutorial on this because it is rather complicated to perform, but the step-by-step instructions above should help in the meantime. I’ll also send a copy of this comment in reply to your email so you can have it.

- Brian

Thanks for the videos. I am puzzled by two things:

1) Why were the 3 regions inside the red dots made black?

2) Toward the end you mentioned something about going from Photoshop to pdf, the format required by Lightning Source Ingram (LSI), but this step was not shown. For example, how does one ensure that the colors are CYMK under 240% (rather than RGB)? If one adds a picture, how does one ensure meeting LSI’s requirement for dpi and color?

Thanks,

I appreciate your stopping by.

Well, I am working on it, slowly but surely. I am forced to work on my paying work first and foremost, so it’s a little slower going on my free ones in the zombie series.

The final in the series is coming, but it will take some time. I hate to give any estimated release times on my free ones because it could either be much sooner or much later than stated time.

I am, however, very glad you have enjoyed reading them. That’s one thing I can absolutely say for certain.

- Brian

I got so hooked on this series, I stopped reading Pt 1 several pages in, went back and read the first 3 books just so i would be all caught up.

well done, Sir

Either way, I’ll make sure it’s signed.