
I'm calling revision four done. Converted it to 6x9 format and sent it off to Lulu.com to get an actual paper copy in my hand. I don't sell it on Lulu, of course, since I am holding out for a actual agent and publisher. I use Lulu to get an economical hard copy in my hands. It costs $40 to print out at Office Depot, and $20 to get a copy shipped to me from Lulu. Of course, it is an actual book, single spaced, with my cover art, and not the double spaced, single sided manuscript format that has been the standard for years for submissions, but this is for my own use. And I love to hold it in my hands. Satisfies my book lust. Looks like an actual book, instead of a foot high stack of paper.
The cover is an actual picture of one of my grandfathers fishing. I think it's pretty cool. Of course, the novel is fiction, and not based on any actual persons. The usual disclaimer. Neither of my grandfathers would have done the things that the grandfather in the novel did. But if would be lying if I said I did not picture my grandfathers when describing some of the physical characteristics of the fictional grandfather in the novel.
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