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#PennedPossibilities 629. How did you break into publishing? (If you’re already published, of course.)

I queried for a while, but only a couple nibbles. the premise is weird, and honestly, I suspect agents were dubious it could be tackled by a cis/het white male middle class engineer. 🤷

So, self-publishing. First Amazon, but as of today I've gone wide via Draft2Digital. (Including Hoopla, so... free.)

books2read.com/u/mdx1Jl

I had to cut the pages at a printing shop because without a hydraulic guillotine, neatly cutting so much paper is just not possible. I've tried many methods but ended up with just uneven and ragged pages.

For binding, i chose the "perfect binding" technique with a softcover. It seems to be the easiest and least labour intensive. Binding the pages was actually easier than i thought.

I've designed the cover around a stunning artwork by Suzuka Youraku. Here is her pixiv page: pixiv.net/en/users/53055517
Full cover can be accessed here: drive.proton.me/urls/4ZWBW7ZHH

In the end, I'm happy with the result. It cost me very little. In total the 400 pages book came at around maybe 5€ to make :blob_rave:

(part 4 of my bookbinding project)

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veraltet. Überarbeite ich die Geschichte so, dass diese Teile geändert werden, passt es für meine Begriffe hinten und vorn nicht mehr. Soll ich es quasi als historischen Roman betrachten und eine Zeitangebe voranstellen, vielleicht noch ein Vorwort? Ich bin mit mir uneins, von praktischen Problemen ganz abgesehen. Aber ich würde es trotz allem gern veröffentlicht sehen, ob es sich finanziell lohnt oder nicht.

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Before printing the book, I had to learn how to format text and design the pages. I opted for printing four pages per A4 sheet, which was not all that easy when printing about 400 pages which then need to be flipped and printed over again.

I'm using Scribus for the layouts. It's clunky and annoying but it's opensource and free. I've included the source file here: drive.proton.me/urls/4DQVGYRVY if anyone wants to try and print this book by themselves :blob_nom_cookie:

(part 3 of my bookbinding project)

#BuchmesseZuHause
Im Herbst 2024 hatte ich den Optimismus, dass mein 2ter Roman noch im selben Jahr fertig wird.
Ok, Nachbearbeitung dauert irgendwie doch länger als man so denkt. 😅

Da ich also noch nichts Neues präsentieren kann, gibt es heute das erste Kapitel von "Pandoras Prozessor Sockel" als Leseprobe. (Die Geschichte ist in sich abgeschlossen, sie bietet dennoch einen Anknüpfpunkt für die Fortsetzung.)

#SciFi #Cyberpunk
#SelfPublishing #Leseprobe

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