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Author Topic: Book writing and self-publishing Leo Enticknap Film God Posts: 7474 From: Loma Linda, CA Registered: Jul 2000 posted 11-26-2005 04:22 AM                        Also, floppies are pretty fragile and can suffer data loss when sent in the post if they get bashed about.  |  IP: Logged Peter Berrett Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 602 From: Victoria, Australia Registered: Nov 2000 posted 11-26-2005 05:06 AM                        Thanks - CDs it is I am well advanced on my first chapter. If anyone is willing to have a read of it and give their honest opinion (positive or negative) please send me an email and I will send chapter 1 to you for comment. I would be particularly interested in any grammar or formatting tips. My email address can be found in my profile. Regards Peter [ 11-28-2005, 03:39 AM: Message edited by: Peter Berrett ]  |  IP: Logged Michael Schaffer "Where is the Boardwalk Hotel?" Posts: 4143 From: Boston, MA Registered: Apr 2002 posted 11-27-2005 03:32 AM                        My first novel has been out for a while now, I think it was actually quite successful and it's now out in paperback. I decided to publish it under a pseudonym though - I didn' want all the media attention that goes with being a bestseller author.  |  IP: Logged Tim Reed Better Projection Pays Posts: 5246 From: Northampton, PA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 11-27-2005 04:04 AM                       quote: Leo will do just fine! .....I'm not sure if this is also true in the US, but the norm here is that PhDs generally don't use the title 'Dr.' except in a very formal context and within (or between) universities or research institutes. Thank you, sir. I assume PhDs regularly use the title here, since I automatically associated your degree with it, but I can't say for certain whether they do or not. Btw, are you autographing any copies of your book? I'd like to get one.  |  IP: Logged Michael Schaffer "Where is the Boardwalk Hotel?" Posts: 4143 From: Boston, MA Registered: Apr 2002 posted 11-27-2005 05:51 AM                        Apparently the book has only 208 pages. Not a whole lot for such a complex subject. Does it have pictures?  |  IP: Logged Leo Enticknap Film God Posts: 7474 From: Loma Linda, CA Registered: Jul 2000 posted 11-27-2005 09:56 AM                        It's actually 280 pages (total length 101,724 words excluding the index). I've emailed Amazon asking them to correct that, but they only accept requests for those sorts of corrections from the publisher. Wallflower Press has done likewise, but Amazon has not responded as yet. quote: Michael Schaffer Not a whole lot for such a complex subject The point of the book is to 'boil down' a complex subject for people who need a starting point. Believe it or not, it would have taken me half the time to write if I'd been allowed three times the length. Editing text down to fit a word length limit was, I found, the most difficult part of the whole business, and gave me a lot of respect for newspaper journalists who have to boil down often complicated issues into 300 or 500 words day in and day out. Specialists in those issues are of course going to complain that the journalist didn't get that judgement call right, but as a writer you've got to make the best judgement you can as to the most important things your reader needs to know within a given limit. quote: Michael Schaffer Does it have pictures? Yes, but not as many or to the quality I'd have liked. Again, that's a budget issue. Some of them I took myself, and others were licensed in. The worst moment came when I got the first set of proofs back. In the chapter on archival preservation I'd prepared 'before' and 'after' colour fading pics (a scanned frame from an element in our collection), similar to the ones Stephen Furley posted on another thread here. There was a detailed caption underneath explaining how dye fading happens ('The picture far right has a pink hue because...') and how archivists can correct it. When the proofs arrived, these pictures were there in black-and-white! In the end the publisher wasn't willing to go to the expense of a colour page, and so those pictures were taken out altogether (for obvious reasons). The relative weakness of the illustrations has been picked up in one review, which was a fair comment. OK - a shameless self-promotion exercise, I admit - would anyone like to review the book for Film-Tech (in the 'ancillary equipment' section, I guess!)? I could bring a copy for Brad when we meet in Austin next week.  |  IP: Logged Stephen Furley Film God Posts: 3059 From: Coulsdon, Croydon, England Registered: May 2002 posted 11-27-2005 10:25 AM                     Congratulations Leo. I need to order some things from Amazon in the next week or two; I'll add a copy to the list.  |  IP: Logged Michael Schaffer "Where is the Boardwalk Hotel?" Posts: 4143 From: Boston, MA Registered: Apr 2002 posted 11-27-2005 11:43 AM                        quote: Leo Enticknap I could bring a copy for Brad when we meet in Austin next week. That's a good idea, then Brad can scan it for the library here Seriously, I don't think anybody minds when you talk about the book. I talked about mine too (see above). You could give a chapter list or something like that so we can see how the content is ditributed and if it is interesting for us to read. How basic is it?  |  IP: Logged Tim Reed Better Projection Pays Posts: 5246 From: Northampton, PA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 11-27-2005 04:25 PM                       Michael, it's $24, just order a copy.  |  IP: Logged Peter Berrett Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 602 From: Victoria, Australia Registered: Nov 2000 posted 11-28-2005 02:22 AM                        Dr Leo Does it have a centrefold? I.e does it have a picture of a naked, reclining Pathe projector, its wheels squealing as the 35mm film rolls gently over its seductive body, its frame spread wide open invitingly, its knobs just waiting for someone to grasp them... cheers peter  |  IP: Logged Leo Enticknap Film God Posts: 7474 From: Loma Linda, CA Registered: Jul 2000 posted 11-28-2005 02:41 PM                        I wish!  |  IP: Logged

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