[Ipg-smz] Seeking some self-pub help (for my flash length kids stories)

[Matt Heusser]

I think you should talk to my friend Steve poling - steve at poling.info has
has automated the whole process of taking a marked-up girl and making
kindle and mobi etc. he’ll give you 20 minutes free and a couple hours
cheap and he is worth it. Ask him about the books he has published!

—Heusser

On Mon, Nov 19, 2018 at 3:12 PM Daniel Dern <dern at pair.com> wrote:

>
> I've got a bunch of short-short (150-3,000 word) stories (my "Dern Grim
> Bedtime Tales, Few of Which End Well, & Other Stories) aimed at kids (I've
> been doing readings at Arisia, Boskone and several WorldCons, some
> libraries, etc) that I'm overdue to Make Easily Available.
>
> (Yes, I can and should be submitting them to sf/etc pubs'n'sites, but
> that's outside the scope of this query.)
>
> While one approach is to gin them into books/booklets (e- or otherwise),
> given their brevity -- most will fit on one or both sides of a sheet of
> paper -- I'm looking at making them available as $1-$2 e- and
> deadtree-thingies, like single songs, etc. And perhaps a book. As long as
> anyone can click and buy 'em quickly and easily.
>
> I have done lots of research (web, books, event sessions, etc) on the
> process of, to borrow a term of art (a title of one of her wonderful
> books) from Teresa Nielsen Hayden, on "making book." My brain teems with
> info about ISBN and barcodes and Library of Congress et c.
>
> I'm looking for some help. Whether it's simply an hour or three of
> consulting and handholding, or more, like words-to-done, I dunno.
>
> All I know is, doing nothing is not moving this project along. And
> reading, or looking at, the stack of books on this, same result.
>
> Feel free to reply off-list or on-list.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Grimly,
>
> DPD
>
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