Just something I thought you'd be interested in...

so i have just found out about this awesome new thing (not new to the world, just new to me) called a print on demand service. let me explain: a few days ago i was reading a revising blog post from one of my favorite authors, maggie stiefvater, and she mentioned something about needing a sense of objectivity to revise something well, and a good way to do that was have a print on demand website print off the book so it actually looks like a book. just reading the sentence made my blood start pumping with anticipation. she specifically mentioned lulu.com, so i went and checked it out.

basically, lulu.com is a self-publishing online company. they will print out your book, short story, poetry book, or any other type of book you can think of for a low price and it will look like something you could buy in a store. you can just do one copy for revising purposes or for your own personal enjoyment, or you can go full out and have them distribute it to places like amazon.com and barnes & noble. that costs a lot more, but you'll have your book in a public place where people can buy it!

i just thought i'd let the CW class know about this because i know some of you would jump at this like i did. and WK, maybe you could integrate this into next year's CW class. or at least let them know about it because i'm sure they'd appreciate something like this! seeing as i don't have a full novel done yet, but i really, really want to try this out now, i fully intend to have a published, professional looking, basically a book copy of my latest short story by the end of the summer. complete with a custom cover. so what are you waiting for?? go check out lulu.com!! as for me, i'm off to morgan's graduation party in a little bit! :)