Comments on: So You Think You Can Write a Book http://www.lulu.com/blog/2008/10/07/write-a-book-at-lulu/ Adventures in Self-Publishing Sun, 05 Feb 2012 13:50:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: Pinoqio http://www.lulu.com/blog/2008/10/07/write-a-book-at-lulu/#comment-5934 Pinoqio Wed, 20 Jul 2011 04:45:28 +0000 http://lulublog.com/?p=377#comment-5934 Great tips on how to start writing a book. Thanks again for the tip. The questions I have is how do you know if anyone is actually interested in reading your book beside you. Thanks Mobile app developers Pinoqio Group www.pinoqio.com Great tips on how to start writing a book.

Thanks again for the tip. The questions I have is how do you know if anyone is actually interested in reading your book beside you.

Thanks
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]]> By: jaha walgern-bell http://www.lulu.com/blog/2008/10/07/write-a-book-at-lulu/#comment-658 jaha walgern-bell Mon, 10 May 2010 16:54:51 +0000 http://lulublog.com/?p=377#comment-658 this blog is so interseting the only thing that making me stop reading this blog well is stop reading it.I have never seen a bolg so convincing so encouraging that it seems to me that this can really work for anyone who wants to be a future writer who ever wrote this blog is so real so not fake i am jaha 11 year old happy to say that i love this bolg this blog is so interseting the only thing that making me stop reading this blog well is stop reading it.I have never seen a bolg so convincing so encouraging that it seems to me that this can really work for anyone who wants to be a future writer who ever wrote this blog is so real so not fake i am jaha 11 year old happy to say that i love this bolg

]]> By: Anthony S. Policastro http://www.lulu.com/blog/2008/10/07/write-a-book-at-lulu/#comment-657 Anthony S. Policastro Wed, 14 Jan 2009 14:56:38 +0000 http://lulublog.com/?p=377#comment-657 Hi Stephanie, I suggest pretending that your book is published and sitting on a shelf in a bookstore and a customer picks it up and starts leafing through. Then the customer asks you, "This book looks interesting. Do you know what it is about?" You then explain the book's highlights in a few sentences with a beginning, middle, and end to the story. Use this description to guide you as you write the book. Then make sure you put some time into your writing each day whether it is just reading the last passage you wrote or sitting for an hour thinking of what to write. To me, writing is like reading a book. If you pick up the book you're reading everyday the plot, characters, and voice of the writing is fresh in your mind. You don't have to backtrack to a previous chapter to figure out what is going on. If you stay away from the book too long, then it is very hard to get back into the story. You have to read previous chapters and hope you remember enough to get back into it. Writing is the same. Lots of luck and keep writing. Anthony Hi Stephanie,
I suggest pretending that your book is published and sitting on a shelf in a bookstore and a customer picks it up and starts leafing through. Then the customer asks you, “This book looks interesting. Do you know what it is about?” You then explain the book’s highlights in a few sentences with a beginning, middle, and end to the story. Use this description to guide you as you write the book. Then make sure you put some time into your writing each day whether it is just reading the last passage you wrote or sitting for an hour thinking of what to write.
To me, writing is like reading a book. If you pick up the book you’re reading everyday the plot, characters, and voice of the writing is fresh in your mind. You don’t have to backtrack to a previous chapter to figure out what is going on. If you stay away from the book too long, then it is very hard to get back into the story. You have to read previous chapters and hope you remember enough to get back into it. Writing is the same.

Lots of luck and keep writing.

Anthony

]]> By: Stephanie Mitchell http://www.lulu.com/blog/2008/10/07/write-a-book-at-lulu/#comment-656 Stephanie Mitchell Tue, 13 Jan 2009 23:25:17 +0000 http://lulublog.com/?p=377#comment-656 Great information and thank you Dan for that. I have a book in mind that is a true story on a murder that took place in Louisianna twenty years ago. I just don't know where to start. LuLu seems great to do a practice book per say while I'm writing my masterpiece. I had the thoughts of someone stealing my work which kept me from writing my book for a while, yet I am the only one who can tell it the way it happened from my point of view. I graduated in film and took creative writing, but its been a while and I have procrastinated way too much. Its time to write my book. Could you tell me the best way to refresh my creativity to get my mind focused on this book? Great information and thank you Dan for that. I have a book in mind that is a true story on a murder that took place in Louisianna twenty years ago. I just don’t know where to start. LuLu seems great to do a practice book per say while I’m writing my masterpiece. I had the thoughts of someone stealing my work which kept me from writing my book for a while, yet I am the only one who can tell it the way it happened from my point of view. I graduated in film and took creative writing, but its been a while and I have procrastinated way too much. Its time to write my book. Could you tell me the best way to refresh my creativity to get my mind focused on this book?

]]> By: James Osler http://www.lulu.com/blog/2008/10/07/write-a-book-at-lulu/#comment-655 James Osler Mon, 12 Jan 2009 06:09:32 +0000 http://lulublog.com/?p=377#comment-655 Great interview. Very informative... and... Proactive. I am a bit biased but for those of us who are academicians in higher ed. I believe that Lulu is the answer... Great interview. Very informative… and… Proactive. I am a bit biased but for those of us who are academicians in higher ed. I believe that Lulu is the answer…

]]> By: ERMA DUKES http://www.lulu.com/blog/2008/10/07/write-a-book-at-lulu/#comment-654 ERMA DUKES Tue, 06 Jan 2009 01:41:13 +0000 http://lulublog.com/?p=377#comment-654 I strumble upon this website and glad I did. I'm in the process of writing my book now. Didn't had any ideal how to find a publisher. I think this may be the way I will go. But must read all your info first. I strumble upon this website and glad I did. I’m in the process of writing my book now. Didn’t had any ideal how to find a publisher. I think this may be the way I will go. But must read all your info first.

]]> By: Anthony S. Policastro http://www.lulu.com/blog/2008/10/07/write-a-book-at-lulu/#comment-653 Anthony S. Policastro Tue, 09 Dec 2008 17:51:19 +0000 http://lulublog.com/?p=377#comment-653 Dear Kangarool, I think every author has a fear that if they put their work out there for free someone will steal it and claim it as their own. The possibility is real, but I think you might have a better chance at getting struck with lightening. With 200,000 new book titles published every year and only 100,000 of them getting into bookstores, and roughly 3,000 titles getting reviews in the media, your work is like a grain a sand on the coast of California. So you have to get it out there in any and all channels possible. The people who will download your book and read it are a very small minority since most people do not like to read a book on a computer or a phone or even an eBook reader like the Kindle or Sony eBook Reader. Most people want to read a book in printed form. Getting your book out there for free as an eBook is similar to a buyer looking at a printed version in a bookstore and reading the first few chapters. That introduction will determine if they want to buy the book. Lots of luck on your book. Anthony Dear Kangarool,
I think every author has a fear that if they put their work out there for free someone will steal it and claim it as their own. The possibility is real, but I think you might have a better chance at getting struck with lightening.
With 200,000 new book titles published every year and only 100,000 of them getting into bookstores, and roughly 3,000 titles getting reviews in the media, your work is like a grain a sand on the coast of California.
So you have to get it out there in any and all channels possible. The people who will download your book and read it are a very small minority since most people do not like to read a book on a computer or a phone or even an eBook reader like the Kindle or Sony eBook Reader. Most people want to read a book in printed form. Getting your book out there for free as an eBook is similar to a buyer looking at a printed version in a bookstore and reading the first few chapters. That introduction will determine if they want to buy the book.
Lots of luck on your book.
Anthony

]]> By: Rick Huffman http://www.lulu.com/blog/2008/10/07/write-a-book-at-lulu/#comment-652 Rick Huffman Tue, 02 Dec 2008 20:59:08 +0000 http://lulublog.com/?p=377#comment-652 I have two books that I had put out by a publisher who I am really dissatisfied with. I switched to Lulu for my newest book, Kelly's Way, and I couldn't be happier. Lulu staff has really taken an interest in my success and have given me all the tools I need to get my wonderful book out there to potential customers. Thank you, Lulu. Rick Huffman I have two books that I had put out by a publisher who I am really dissatisfied with. I switched to Lulu for my newest book, Kelly’s Way, and I couldn’t be happier. Lulu staff has really taken an interest in my success and have given me all the tools I need to get my wonderful book out there to potential customers.
Thank you, Lulu.
Rick Huffman

]]> By: kangarool http://www.lulu.com/blog/2008/10/07/write-a-book-at-lulu/#comment-651 kangarool Tue, 02 Dec 2008 09:11:44 +0000 http://lulublog.com/?p=377#comment-651 HI Anthony, thanks for the information and guidance. If you have a minute, would you mind elaborating on your thoughts with regard to the merit, and peril, of offering your book for free as a download, even for a limited time? Actually, the question has more to do with publishing an e-book at all, whether it's free or not. My fear, and I'd expect many other 0-time or 1st-time publishers, is that the Free/E- version makes its way into the great unknown, and then all control is lost ... we think our ideas will be so attractive to the wider market that the e-version will simply be passed around the Net, resulting in no one 'needing' to buy the actual book, which obviously is the whole point. I am well aware of the counter argument (which you address in your original post), which is: put your thoughts out there, even in a limited form, and despite the few freebies you may have to contend with, the larger market will be exposed to, and subsequently purchase, your book... which they wouldn't have been introduced to otherwise. I see the point, and rationally agree with it (probably!), but the emotional side of me is worried that we're giving away our product free to the few people who we stood a chance of actually selling it to... Thanks for any insight you can provide/kangarool HI Anthony, thanks for the information and guidance.

If you have a minute, would you mind elaborating on your thoughts with regard to the merit, and peril, of offering your book for free as a download, even for a limited time? Actually, the question has more to do with publishing an e-book at all, whether it’s free or not.

My fear, and I’d expect many other 0-time or 1st-time publishers, is that the Free/E- version makes its way into the great unknown, and then all control is lost … we think our ideas will be so attractive to the wider market that the e-version will simply be passed around the Net, resulting in no one ‘needing’ to buy the actual book, which obviously is the whole point.

I am well aware of the counter argument (which you address in your original post), which is: put your thoughts out there, even in a limited form, and despite the few freebies you may have to contend with, the larger market will be exposed to, and subsequently purchase, your book… which they wouldn’t have been introduced to otherwise.

I see the point, and rationally agree with it (probably!), but the emotional side of me is worried that we’re giving away our product free to the few people who we stood a chance of actually selling it to…

Thanks for any insight you can provide/kangarool

]]> By: Anthony S. Policastro http://www.lulu.com/blog/2008/10/07/write-a-book-at-lulu/#comment-650 Anthony S. Policastro Fri, 10 Oct 2008 03:17:28 +0000 http://lulublog.com/?p=377#comment-650 Hi Andrea, Yes, I would be honored to visit your site and leave my thoughts. Thanks for the invite. Hi Andrea,
Yes, I would be honored to visit your site and leave my thoughts. Thanks for the invite.

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