Between Maple and Chesnut
Today I received some foil-stamping samples for the 2nd book. Again, I feel that things are progressing, and one ‘idea’ is slowing morphing into something more ‘real’.
Whether it’s making images, and having visualisations of what it is you want to create, or whether it’s visualising the choice of wall paper for your home, we all have to dream in order to see where it is we’re going.
But with anything you’re working on, you have to keep on the ball about the entire process. Creating a book is a long, long process and there has been so many emails between Darren – who’s creating the press ready file, and myself. And the printer hasn’t been involved so much as yet, but I’ve maybe emailed them so much now, I’m losing track!
But today I posted off sample Inkjet prints for each of the images in the book to the printer. Darren had advised this for the first book – his reasoning being that although everyone may be colour managed, you really need to send of hard copy prints – it’s the only real way to make sure the printer sees what you’re seeing.
Anyway, I’ll be heading off to South America in a week or so’s time. Plenty of time to get lost doing photos, conducting photo safaris, and meeting Easter Island statues. But little time for work on the book. So I’m hoping to have everything wrapped up on the book front next week.
Bruce,
I would be keen for you to do an e-book on how to self publish physical hard copy books. After your book number two you will will have learnt a lot and it will be a journey with advice and know-how which would be worth telling.
I have your first book, a gift from my son, so I await your second with great expectation.
One more thing have you produced an e-book on colour management i.e. from scan, to screen to print. I thought you had for some reason but I can’t find it, am i mistaken or blind?
As always keep up the great work. Im excited by your journey, most inspiring. ( very jealous of your up coming travel itinerary for the next 12 months )
Cheers, Steve Coleman
Comment by Steve Coleman — 31 May, 2012 @ 1:58 am
Hi Steve.
No eBook of that nature as yet. I’m working on one, but it won’t cover scanning and the printing side is a massive subject on its own, so it’s really about post processing. But it will take time…. something I don’t have a lot of these days.
But thanks for the ideas regarding the e-Book about making a book. I don’t feel it’s a direction I would be interested in going down, as I feel my own story is rather limited, and of not much appeal to others. It’s too personal to myself and rather limited in scope for any ‘market’ of reader wishing to do their own book.
I think most would like to know about the design of a book, and maybe how to market it, but I’m no expert – I’m still learning about that side myself – and I feel I’ll only be in a position to talk about that in maybe a decade from now, if I’m able to build up Half-Light Press.
Most folks interested in making a book would be best served by places like Blurb, or by buying a specific book about marketing and choice of subject for a book. I did it all wrong, and my story would be really just the personal account of one person, and by no means a ‘how to do it’ book.
Comment by Bruce Percy — 31 May, 2012 @ 2:22 am