I read this last night after I wrote the I love my job part deux, but didn’t read all of the posting.
It would appear that the site on which I first started posting my blog, diary, journal whatever you want to call it has come up with a way with a publisher to print the blog as a book.
OMG and stuff.
Wait it gets better.
Once you have it done you can make it available on paperback to buy on Amazon.
OMG twice as much as the first time with a hand flutter and possibly hopping and stuff.
Now I certainly understand that I would probably sell ten copies at the most if I did that option but ten copies is ten copies and I don’t think there would be any profit at all but I would have a book
I’ve been doing this for a while, like a long while there are over 1700 entries on the blog.
Granted one of them says I have to pee and that is all and another is I am so drunk
But in both cases they were certainly very accurate statements.
In the I have to pee entry, I had to pee so bad I think I peed for five minutes without pause.
Then in the I am so drunk on it took 15 minutes to type because I was seeing double and had to type with one hand and log into the diary and all that too.
But
Things that worry me are
One I so needed to proof read my entries because there are things in there that the way they were said are awfully bad grammar. So much so that someone may think that English was third language and not my mother tongue. I could go back and edit some but that is a lot of editing and it’s not as simple as it sounds. So that isn’t likely to happen not because I couldn’t do it, there simply isn’t the time
Two, there are things in there which are unflattering to me and to some others.
Three there are things in there which are pretty personal and while I put them out there to be seen by anyone do I want it in a book form? I know not much different but it feels different.
I’m pretty excited about this and I am considering doing it despite my concerns. It is certainly something that I can’t just plop the money down for but it isn’t terribly expensive either.
What to do, what to do?
Would you buy a copy for standard paperback prices or less because there are no other promotional and admin costs?
Would you do this if you were or are a blogger?
In other news
The plan after the plan has been launched but that has not yielded any results
There is a plan b which involves my foot and a nail fortunately I am current on my tetanus so lockjaw isn’t a problem but I’m not sure I really want to step on a nail intentionally. I have done this several times by accident and that is the oddest feeling having a nail slide out of your foot because you really don’t feel it go in so much as you are just suddenly in pain and not really able to move your foot from the spot in which it is nailed. Well bottom up but still nailed to a spot.
That sliding out feeling … shudder
Being stabbed is the same more pain same sliding feeling, yes I know because the other one stabbed me once upon a time but that is a different story.
There is a reason to have the thing published
One because I do have rather interesting stories now and then
Two, I have some prose I would want printed at least once
Three, this is a bucket list thing
Four, I don’t have a four yet.
Well I’m off to think on this some more and work too (insert frown) let me know your thoughts if you care in a comment. Thanks and stuff
Well, that’s all for now, other stuff tomorrow most likely
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