Friday, January 3, 2020

Planning a self published book - 5

Status update
  1. Select the chapter categories
  2. Design the covers
  3. Make a mini trial version of the content
  4. Rethink plan and feasibility
  5. Make volume 1 (kindle version) in PDF format
  6. Get a review of volume 1
  7. Present the PDF to editors
  8. Contact PrintRoom
  9. GO - NOGO decision
  10. Edition size decision
  11. Order print run of volume 1
Most of the chapters finished

A sample of two chapters and one illustration. Click to enlarge:



More challenge

I need to avoid irony. Irony is easy and cheap. The challenge is to make it positive somehow, and that will not be easy with my clippings from the Kindle.

Contents of volume 1 decided

After pruning the most pretentious keywords and removing keywords from similar domains, I'm left with the following 36 chapter headings. It feel like a nice random set. Strange how much the meaning and feeling changes if you put 'a', 'the', or nothing in front of a word.
salt - the periodic table - antioxidant
the bridge - suburbs - colour samples
window - oarsman - renaissance
pulley - the flood - silence
victory - strangers - stone lions
Japanese submarine - the clock
a savage plant - magma
consolation - the chair - atomic number
poetic empire - the monument - subway
eagles made from plastic - epicycle
crust - conservation of matter - finger
simulacrum - wheel of fortune - territory
mission - fear - the moon

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