What comes next? I know everyone is exicted about this project (so it seems to me) and I've been given tremedous support both in words and deeds. I suspect that people do know how much these words mean to me. I'm chuffed by all your support.
All I can say is "Thank you immensly!"
So, what happens now?
Well, first I have to go through the edit with all that this entails. It will certainly mean that all my nice paginations will have been shot to heeee---re and back, so that after the re-edit, I will have to re-paginate from start to finish.
Once I have done that, and 'fixed' the pages so that the type doesn't move about, it will be almost ready for uploading.
After conversion to pdf, it will be uploaded to Lulu.
The cover art so magnificently crafted by Mikal will be loaded upwards at the same time and I will purchase a distribution service, including my ISBN for the work.
Once uploaded and the technicals are satisfied, I have to purchase 1(one) copy. This serves to create a legal entity in the book and to give me a proof copy to make sure that everything has come out hunkey dory.
Once I approve this, then it can go into the system, at which time it will be available for purchase from outside, first via Lulu.com, then, as the system kicks in, via Amazon, Barnes and Noble and the other book distribution networks (if I have understood it all correctly).
Then, and only then, will people will be able to buy. What will happen at this eventuality, is that whenever anyone buys a copy, the order goes to the printer (in New Jersey or Barcelona, Spain although I think I saw a note somewhere that they now have a printer in the UK) who then prints that single copy specially for you, then dispatches it to you.
Simple really, or so I'm told.
Watch this space.
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