I’ve been writing as a hobby over the years, with adventure articles published on surfing (Surfers Journal, "A Hell of a big Swell), flyfishing, boating. Now with more time on my hands, have just finished and placed an eBook novel on Amazon. So if you like suspense/adventure yarns, get out your Kindle and give it a try. After all, my wife really likes it, and how could anyone so unbiased be wrong… LOL
Halfway through the next book in the series, and working to stand up a blog site with some good surf stories on it, and where folks can upload their surfing stories
Looks like my kind of story, but I’m a paper kind of guy. Yah know, a book under the pillow, another next to my favorite chair, one under the seat of my truck, and of course one next to the potty.
I hear ya, Rooster, still like paper myself, especially the newspaper in the morning with a cup of coffee - only with the contraction in the publishing industry as eBooks take over, very difficult to publish. The paperless society draws nearer…
all depends on how you want to connect with your ‘audience’…lots of good tools out there for creating a book, it’s the publishing that gets very costly, especially when pictures, color, etc are involved…one of the reasons Surfers Journal is printed in Asia - no printers in the US even dealing with that quality of print media anymore
Just as Netflix and Redbox are eating movies theater’s lunch, streaming media eating brodcast televison, printed media slowly going the same direction.
way kids today embedded to their multi-media umbrical cords, couple more generations, game over…
…I know that, I talked about if you wanna have a few printed out as coffe table ones or to go to bed with a book
remember that still are another generations in this world who like books and not so retarded oriented as many teenagers in several social classes round the world
...In 2004 I wrote a book about building boards but never published it
when I get more time I ll do in this way to have a few:
www.blurb.com
I think its the answer
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I did a few with blurb - its p.o.d. (print on demand), so cost per unit is more expensive, but its great for when you just need a few. I was very pleased with the quality of the books.
lcc -------- Go for it. Your blurbs on this site have always been coherent and interesting. Pat Farley wrote a book some years back and self-published it. NY times bestseller list? not exactly, but worth a read and the cost of self publishing. Don't limit yoiurself to "Surf Junk". If you do it will be the end of you writing career.