A landmark day

Friday was a landmark day. I copied my book onto CD, as the file was too large to email because of the colour pictures, and I took it to the printers. It's great having a printer so local that I can just call in at the office. It was a heady feeling to finally finish and hand it over to be printed and bound into a book, ready for the shops.

I've still got a lot of work to do on marketing, but I like to pause and enjoy moments of achievement along the way.

Ready to go to the printers...

I've been a bit bogged down in the technical stuff this week - scanning pictures and formatting, but I think everything is up to standard now and ready to go to the printers. I'll be using YPS (York Publishing Services) again http://www.yps-publishing.co.uk/ as they did such an excellent job on my last book.

Nearly ready to print

I visited the printers on Tuesday to talk about book size and binding. Size of book is a big consideration as some sizes are not economical due to paper sizes, so yesterday I did a bit of resizing and formatting, and came up with final size and number of colour and black and white pages, ready for a quote...

Market research?

Today I was in a book shop doing a bit of market research on book prices, ahead of going to talk to a printer and getting a quote for printing my book. Then I came across 'Diary of a Wombat', a lovely picture book, which made me laugh so much I had to buy it. As I don't have anyone of the target age group to buy it for, I'll just have to admit that I bought it for myself. I think I'm just a lost cause when it comes to children's books, especially if they make me laugh!