Published any kind of book, or should I say had one published ?

I'm full of questions these days, Ive never been good at answers anyway.

I read a book. . There was a boy and girl in it and they had a dog that liked to run.

A friend of mine has a had a book of his poems published. Can't say I've read it - not my thing really, but it gave him a kick

What's your chosen subject Jon?

This lot (http://www.lulu.com/) were on Radio 4 this morning.

Means you don't have the hassle of getting a real publishing deal (almost impossible these days). But has the down side you don't get to see your book on the shelves of WHS et.al.

Probably only works well for technical books with audiences sizes the big boys don't care about, crap for novels I'd imagine.

Avoid vanity publishing like the plague unless you have more money than sense.

Not clicked the link but how's Lulu involved?

I think she's crazy!



I'll get me coat....

some blokes here at work are the guru's when it comes to linux. They've had a number of books published. Had a funny moment when i went on a course with them. The lecture was handing out his book being all proud etc etc and they started to talk to him. He was all "its not done badly, couple of thousand copies etc". He realised they knew a lot so asked them if they'd written anything. 10 or 15 volumes later he realised he wasn't in the same league, especially when they started talknig about 100,000 copies shifted.



funny to watch.

I've just been given the go ahead on a book which three of us are writing between us. Nothing exciting though - it will be a support guide for students doing a marketing qualification.

Hopefully a future one will be car related!

My ex girlfriends mum has loads of novels published, damned if i can remember the name she writes under though!

David

my mum had a book called 'splat' published once, and several others too. Recently came second in some competition at the edinbugger international book festival She has done a lot of proof reading, had many short stories published in magazines etc, and currently edits a psycology magazine. She's the best mum in the world!

Various family members have written various things, do a search on amazon for 'Matanle'.
I haven't written anything myself unless you count my dissertation, that resembled a book by the end of it!

Andy, could have done with your marketing book last year!

that old joke springs to mind, relating to a tax return winning the booker prize for 'best work of fiction'

I've had some technical documents published.

What did you have in mind?