I’m not going to get into a debate here, or discuss why self-publishing is ultimately a bad idea, or at least a dead-end alley if you’re not careful. But one good thing about Lulu is that the price is pretty gosh-darned good.
As Dark Heart is maturing for a few months before I commence the edit and second draft, I discovered that creating an actual physical book with Lulu was cheaper than getting the manuscript printed at a copy centre. So just three days after uploading my manuscript, a handsome trade paperback of Dark Heart arrived in the mail.
The quality is superb, and if I’d gone to any trouble with the cover and interior, I could easily pretend it was a published book.
Pretend is the key word there.
But for a printed editing copy, it’s great. It’s portable, the paper quality is great. So I can take it anywhere, read it, make notes, scribble all over the inside. Good stuff.
