Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2007 18:17:34 -0400
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: POD service
From: Eva Whitley <eva.whitley at gmail.com>
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

Stan wrote:
>> Changes in the book biz.
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>>
>
> I've had a couple of friends tell me they are investigating Lulu POD.
>
> http://www.lulu.com/
>
> They are one of the ones with links to Amazon and seem to offer a wide range
> of options. Every format from Comics, through trade paperbacks to
> coffee-table hardbounds are available.
>
With the potential to be amusing to the casual stalker. I discovered
someone I knew in college (side note to Erica: Kit of Jim & Kit) is now
publishing books about her side career as a dominatrix:
http://calendars.lulu.com/content/496747

> Two very real problems with these efforts are the lack of an editor and the
> realities of self-promotion.

 From what I've seen the ones most in need of an editor are the ones who
don't think they need one.

>
> Riding the fence between self-published POD and the big houses, we see the
> hundreds of webpublishers in every genre you can imagine (and some you'd
> rather not).
>
> A very good friend publishes romantica for several, different webfirms. She
> has 30 novels to her credit at the moment and does a dog-and-pony show at
> five or six cons a year. She's making a living, but is NOT rich and is
> constantly under the gun to produce the next tale and hunt down the next
> check.
>

A depressing number of SF writers are in the same situation.--Eva Whitley