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Do you think there would be any interest in a hardcover version of Abominations?

shroud wrote:Do you think there would be any interest in a hardcover version of Abominations?

Shit yeah!! It's 17 instead of 13 stories so why not so something different?

I would buy a few for prizes and of course my family.

Either way, I will be glad to see one of my stories in a kick ass book. I also need a few to sell at Cons.

I also agree with you Tim. The PDF was hosed, I know because I downloaded it first. Other problems include the fact that I sent in 3 stories, got an acceptance for one of them but they published one of the two they rejected!?!?!?! We could go on forever, but I would like to forget. Abominations will allow the healing to begin!

shroud wrote:

KevinLucia wrote:That's sad to hear. I heard about it too late to submit, and then I heard a lot of boards and blogs slamming it, but thought to myself, "C'mon, now...no need to bash...."

Too bad. I've done stuff through Lulu with my school, (poetry anthologies for the kids), it's really not hard at all to make something look presentable, even nice. There's some headaches with conversion if you just upload straight Word to the system, (mucks with fonts and such), but if you convert the document to .pdf beforehand with all the fonts embedded and all that, it's pretty clean.

Kevin you are right. While I have never used Lulu, I believe the fault here lies with the publisher, not the printer. Very little effort was put in.

It definitely isn't Lulu's fault... they print from the files you upload. I laid out a perfectly good anthology and printed it on Lulu... well received and impressed a publisher enough for them to pick up the series.

I thought there was an overabundance of snark with regards to the Help anthology too, but after hearing all this, I'm glad I only submit to paying publications now.

lcrisler wrote:

shroud wrote:

KevinLucia wrote:That's sad to hear. I heard about it too late to submit, and then I heard a lot of boards and blogs slamming it, but thought to myself, "C'mon, now...no need to bash...."

Too bad. I've done stuff through Lulu with my school, (poetry anthologies for the kids), it's really not hard at all to make something look presentable, even nice. There's some headaches with conversion if you just upload straight Word to the system, (mucks with fonts and such), but if you convert the document to .pdf beforehand with all the fonts embedded and all that, it's pretty clean.

Kevin you are right. While I have never used Lulu, I believe the fault here lies with the publisher, not the printer. Very little effort was put in.

It definitely isn't Lulu's fault... they print from the files you upload. I laid out a perfectly good anthology and printed it on Lulu... well received and impressed a publisher enough for them to pick up the series.

I thought there was an overabundance of snark with regards to the Help anthology too, but after hearing all this, I'm glad I only submit to paying publications now.

You said snark!

lcrisler wrote:

shroud wrote:

KevinLucia wrote:That's sad to hear. I heard about it too late to submit, and then I heard a lot of boards and blogs slamming it, but thought to myself, "C'mon, now...no need to bash...."

Too bad. I've done stuff through Lulu with my school, (poetry anthologies for the kids), it's really not hard at all to make something look presentable, even nice. There's some headaches with conversion if you just upload straight Word to the system, (mucks with fonts and such), but if you convert the document to .pdf beforehand with all the fonts embedded and all that, it's pretty clean.

Kevin you are right. While I have never used Lulu, I believe the fault here lies with the publisher, not the printer. Very little effort was put in.

It definitely isn't Lulu's fault... they print from the files you upload. I laid out a perfectly good anthology and printed it on Lulu... well received and impressed a publisher enough for them to pick up the series.

I thought there was an overabundance of snark with regards to the Help anthology too, but after hearing all this, I'm glad I only submit to paying publications now.

My snark only manifested after repeated polite attempts to get hold of someone related to the Help anthology were largely ignored.

My frustration was compounded by how many people were promoting the anthology, but these same people could not be bothered to simply write back to me and answer my questions.

FINALLY Erick Enck got back to me then passed the buck to Mike Bennet -
(deiterkim@yahoo.com) whom I contacted to request a refund or an exchange and he still has not responded to my email.

That was June 8th. 17 Days later and still no reply. It's inexcusable.

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