CREATING A BOOK FOR PUBLICATION ON LULU
What is Lulu? How do I create a Lulu account?
Lulu is a print on demand service for authors.
Creating an account is free.
You need an email address in order to create an account.
You may like to consider having a separate email address just for use with Lulu. Maybe a pseudonym.
You can have any number of Lulu accounts, but each requires a distinct email address, as it is used for logging in.
OK, go ahead and create your Lulu account. Of course keep a note of the password.
I am writing a book. Yes of course you are!
I have met several people who tell me that they are writing a book. And they tell everyone, and of course all their friends are so impressed.
A year later I ask: how is the book coming along? And of course it has not progressed beyond a dozen pages. I am not surprised.
Writing a book is a serious slog. It has to be treated as a job, not as a pastime to be dipped in and out of.
If you are writing a book it is probably best not to brag about it to everyone you know. Because you thereby create the reward for yourself in that moment, not in the moment of completion.
In fact there is no such thing as completion. Once you really get into it, you find ever more items to put into it. And then it is best to stop adding to that book, and consider what would be best put into another book, to follow on. A certain amount of pruning and re-arranging is to be expected.
There is the usual stuff, about knowing who your audience is. But I suggest you ignore that and write what you need to write. It is hard to second guess what anyone wants to read anyway. Some of the most amazingly successful books were a puzzle for the publishers. “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance” could not easily be categorised, and the manuscript was rejected by numerous publishers.
More words does not mean a better book. People have generally low attention spans now, so I tend to write short chapters, maybe even a single page or just 2 or 3 pages per chapter. Of course, this depends on the type of book – factual or fiction. Re-read your chapter, and see how many surplus words can be cut, without losing the meaning.
What does Lulu need you to produce?
Lulu needs a file for the interior pages and a file for the cover artwork. I use PDFs for both.
You can use your favourite applications, assuming they can produce PDFs.
I use Libre Office. This is free. Libre Office Writer for the internal pages, and Libre Office Draw for the cover artwork. Save the work in the default file type. And then export as PDF.
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Thanks for this. There's an old gag: "Everyone thinks they have a book in them ...
and for most people that's the best place for it". I think the truth is that a lot of publishers and a lot of professionals really don't know what's going to be successful. This applies to books and movies.
In the book "Adventures in the Screen trade", the author William Goldman emphasised the point
with: "Nobody knows anything".
There's something about real books, real magazines, newspapers that give them some gravitas that you don't get with purely online content. During the Covid crazyness the monthly paper
"The Light" was set up by a couple of musicians ... with £5k. At it's peak it had a readership of
over 300k. It's still going now with a readership of about 100k.
The book "Chicken Soup for the Soul" by Jack Canfield and Mark Hansen got turned down
144 times by different publishers. They kept plugging away because extracts of the book were
getting rave reviews from attendees at their face-to-face seminars. They were confident they
would ultimately be successful.
145th time lucky ... the "Chicken Soup" series has sold over 500 million copies, with 250 titles, translated into 43 languages and sold in over 100 countries.