Convention vendor, compulsive writer. I have a Patreon for monthly bills and a KoFi for tips.
That, as a very rough estimate, with plenty of illustrations, is what the CSP one-volume book will run to.
That's at 6X9 print size, with very small type (10 point) for the text.
Hoo, boy...
(The good news is, that's a lot more dense than Avonder's edition of The Maretian in hardcover was. He used 12-point text, I think, and I might use 11-point for the reprints and for the single-volume abridged edition.)
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Just a suggestion set open but wait a year or so for prints and/or reprints of the books
Right now a lot of people are strapped for cash and it might be smarter to hold off for now.
Sorry I’d love to get a copy or so but.... money’s toght
Any ideas what cost is going to be like?
Also, will My Flight be included in this?
Ye gads. Lulu has a cap at I think 800 pages. I hit that solid with Letters From a Little Princess Monster, and had to play with things like increasing the outside margins by .1 inches and making first lines indent at .3 in instead of .5in, etc... It's still a massive tome worthy of +1 damage when used as a projectile weapon, and a testament to "Did I write all this? Wow." I did stick with (checks) 12 point Garmond except for the footnotes.
Grats!
5417359 Not yet. It's one reason why I'm working on assembling the book.
5417359 Also, My Flight will be the prologue for CSP, and the Chapters 1 and 2 on FimFiction will be rolled into a single chapter.
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Are you saying that I could get "Little Princess Monster" on Lulu? If so
If you struggle with Lulu you might try Ministry of Image, they do excellent work on pony books, albeit the shipping time and cost is more expensive as they are based out of Ukraine or Russia (somewhere in that area at any rate), but the quality is totally worth it. I also recently found out that Lulu "Technically" has rules against fanfiction but don't often do anything about it unless there's an actual complaint.
5417560 *clears throat*
Many of your favorite My Little Pony Fanfiction works are now available through Ponyfeather Publishing by way of Lulu's Print on Demand, and through the Friends of PFP link on that page. Georg has his collection there too.
We now return you to your regularly scheduled blog post, already in progress.
Why are you using 6x9 with 10pt type? For a book that thick, go to a larger format and use larger print.
You can also decrease letter-spacing by as much as 10% without affecting the words' appearances. If need you to push it, 15% might be acceptable to most people. This will usually add a line to every page, and decrease your page count by 15 pages over a 500 page book. Further reductions end-up with some letters touching others and it becomes hard to read.
Don't decrease word spacing, that makes it harder to read.
Line spacing can be reduced by one to two points per line, giving you an extra line on every page. Over 500 pages that alone would reduce your page count by fifteen pages,
Before making such changes, check to see how your chapters' end. Would using these tricks on each of fifteen pages make a chapter one page shorter? If you could do that for fifty chapters, it would remove 50 pages from the book.
Playing with the margins can also decrease total page count, Just making the textblock a tenth of an inch wider on each side and at the bottom can give you big savings.
5417637 (as an older person myself, I have to agree with the larger print. 12pt is about the best for reading. Just don't scrimp on the inner margin (the part where the glue goes). I have a Terry Pratchett novel that I keep having to push flat in order to read the bent bits.)
5417637 I'm trying to keep the price of the book down. 6X9 is one of my current book printer's preset sizes and offers a significant discount, plus it's about the same size as the Maretian hardcovers.
As for those other tricks you mention, I'm familiar with them, but my experimentation shows they hurt the readability worse than reducing the font size a bit.
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Really!? I have published dozens of books with the letter-spacing reduced by 10% without any issues at all.
What are you using for typesetting? I use Adobe InDesign 5.5.
You can also used a different typefont, simply switching between New Times Roman and Goudy Old Style or Palatino can make a difference in book length.
5418900 Microsoft Publisher, because I have it. (My old Adobe CS didn't have InSight included, and I'm not renting the modern version.)
Incidentally, today I realized I can't go 10 pt for my main text anyway, because I need 10 pt for the footnotes. So the main text has to be 12 pt, which means the book will be even longer. ARGH.
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I suggest you look for a second-hand version InDesign, either 5.5 or 6. Ebay has helped me there in finding older software. I just picked up an old version of Office Home and Student for my new computer that way.
Also, check the page-layout and typesetter forums.
5419371 I'm already about to lay out a thousand dollars on art for the book which I may not get back. Buying ANY new software for this is out of the question.
If I can't make Publisher 2003 work (and it's an uphill slog), it's back to Photoshop and setting everything up one page at a time. (And as dreadful as that was at first, after finding out how much Publisher is NOT designed for this, it's more and more looking like the easier option.)
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What's your address?
5419430 PM'd. (Not that it isn't public knowledge, since I have my own little company and all, but.)