Billy Young's Blog - Posts Tagged "cover"
26th June 2009
My Lulu troubles still are on going. I did get word back but it far from resolved the issues I have. I sent in my reply and now await them getting back in touch.
My wife has finished checking over Bublos, making recommendations on where more is needed. Luckily it is in only a couple of places, with more typos than I would like to sort out as well. It’s strange how they always creep into your writing. No matter how hard you work to eliminate them you always seem to find more. Sometimes I think it the word processing package not saving it 100% correctly. That will just be my paranoia though. I got the cover finished for the book and have started searching around for publishers. I did find one or two epulishers which don’t ask for cash and so look like they offer a good service. What I didn’t see on there sites was forums to gauge what others experience is with them. More research is needed before I decide how to go. I have the time as at the moment my job search is going no-where. The job market is very empty for those of us with few skills. Well not a great deal I can do about that, just keep searching and hope that something comes my way soon.
My wife has finished checking over Bublos, making recommendations on where more is needed. Luckily it is in only a couple of places, with more typos than I would like to sort out as well. It’s strange how they always creep into your writing. No matter how hard you work to eliminate them you always seem to find more. Sometimes I think it the word processing package not saving it 100% correctly. That will just be my paranoia though. I got the cover finished for the book and have started searching around for publishers. I did find one or two epulishers which don’t ask for cash and so look like they offer a good service. What I didn’t see on there sites was forums to gauge what others experience is with them. More research is needed before I decide how to go. I have the time as at the moment my job search is going no-where. The job market is very empty for those of us with few skills. Well not a great deal I can do about that, just keep searching and hope that something comes my way soon.
21st January 2011
Great news this week at work, I might be getting kept on. One of my fellow workers got a new job so today was his last day. That means there is now an opening, which is good for me. When I asked my line supervisor today what the chances of me being kept on he said that it was “very good.” You can’t get much better than that. It may be minimum wage but a job in this day and age is still better than the brew (unemployment).
Woking does mean that there is less time for writing but I do get the weekends for that. Talking of which my son has begun reading through my next book, Banshee Fires of Revenge. My sister has the same printer as I do so she lent me her to print up my story. Hopefully he won’t take to long with it. That just means me nagging him a bit to get reading or he’ll take forever. I can’t blame him though as he has his own interests though he does like to read as well. I also finished the cover ands uploaded that and the synopsis to my site and GoodReads.com.
I will now need to start getting my plot together for my next tale. I’ve been thinking about it for a few months now trying to figure out how to approach it. It isn’t a horror this time but more of a speculative fiction set in the future, a dark tale though. I’ve even been thinking of a title yet I’ll decide when it is done whether to go with one of two I have in mind. Of course I don’t want to say too much about it just yet.
As to my troubles with the Jobcentre and Tax Credits well as I said the other week it has finally been sorted. God is certainly smiling on me today, “Thanks Big Man.”
Woking does mean that there is less time for writing but I do get the weekends for that. Talking of which my son has begun reading through my next book, Banshee Fires of Revenge. My sister has the same printer as I do so she lent me her to print up my story. Hopefully he won’t take to long with it. That just means me nagging him a bit to get reading or he’ll take forever. I can’t blame him though as he has his own interests though he does like to read as well. I also finished the cover ands uploaded that and the synopsis to my site and GoodReads.com.
I will now need to start getting my plot together for my next tale. I’ve been thinking about it for a few months now trying to figure out how to approach it. It isn’t a horror this time but more of a speculative fiction set in the future, a dark tale though. I’ve even been thinking of a title yet I’ll decide when it is done whether to go with one of two I have in mind. Of course I don’t want to say too much about it just yet.
As to my troubles with the Jobcentre and Tax Credits well as I said the other week it has finally been sorted. God is certainly smiling on me today, “Thanks Big Man.”
