Once the book was all proofed and the camera ready art produced, and once I had the color separation for the cover all produced I was ready to order the first run of books which was approximately 1000 copies.
NRI Schools sent me a check in advance for these books. How can you beat that? So I sent everything off to Whitehall Publishing and waited nervously.
A couple of weeks later several heavy boxes arrived. So exciting!
I cracked open one of the boxes and grabbed one of the fresh books. What a neat thing to hold the result of so much work in my hands. This really looked just like a book that you would buy at the store.
And then... I opened the book to the first page and my heart sank. The very page had a spelling mistake. I misspelled the word congratulations. :-/
It read Congradulations. What? How could I miss that?
Ah well, it was still a great day! :-)
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Thursday, January 14, 2016
Sunday, January 10, 2016
Liberty BASIC book preproduction
In addition to actually writing the Liberty BASIC book which involved developing the tutorial examples and explaining them, creating a quiz for each chapter, developing and proofreading each chapter, etc. There was the matter of producing camera ready pages. They needed to be a certain size and they wanted crop marks on the pages.
NRI Schools also wanted a full color color, which I really didn't know how to create. A friend of mine named Robert Gerami actually helped me with the graphic, and he even added a funny cartoon to the back of the book. The cartoon was of a building with a sign saying "Programming School" and there was a hot dog stand outside the building. A character with a fishing rod up on the second floor was trying to snatch a hot dog from the vendor's stand with his fish hook! It was a humorous way to polish off the book's cover design.
There was a local company that created the acetate color separations for the cover, and all this went off to a company called Whitehall Publishing. They charged me approximately $6 for each copy of the book when ordered in 1,000 or more.
All I needed to do now was write the check and wait...
NRI Schools also wanted a full color color, which I really didn't know how to create. A friend of mine named Robert Gerami actually helped me with the graphic, and he even added a funny cartoon to the back of the book. The cartoon was of a building with a sign saying "Programming School" and there was a hot dog stand outside the building. A character with a fishing rod up on the second floor was trying to snatch a hot dog from the vendor's stand with his fish hook! It was a humorous way to polish off the book's cover design.
There was a local company that created the acetate color separations for the cover, and all this went off to a company called Whitehall Publishing. They charged me approximately $6 for each copy of the book when ordered in 1,000 or more.
All I needed to do now was write the check and wait...
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