My sister posted a piece about making one's blog into a book and it looked so enticing that I gave it a try. Then I kept trying, tweaking, copying and pasting, fixing fonts, color managing photos, fine-tuning, spell checking (blogger spell check doesn't work on my mac), and soft and hard proofing.
Some 20 hours of work later, I'm ready to publish volume 1: all the posts, comments, and most of the photots from 2006 and 2007. As soon as I make my first copy and approve it, it will be available at the Blurb Bookstore for you die-hard readers as a hardcover for approximately $40.00. I don't expect you to actually buy it (and I won't make any profit on it), but I wanted to make a copy for myself because I haven't been as good at keeping up my journal lately. Besides, I'm one of those design geeks who enjoys color managing photos in Photoshop and fine-tuning colors in HSB and RGB late into the night. I hope it turns out right... it's certainly been fun.
Here's to another year of Thirty Marens Agreeing. Happy New Year!
5 comments:
That is so cool! And I'm so impressed with this form of journaling. Really any form of consistent journaling is cool to me . . .
Hey; your link to the Blurb Bookstore leads back here!
Oops... all fixed!
Way to make it happen. It really sounds like you enjoyed the process. So........want to make mine?
PS - bring it to florida
Let me wait until I have the book and can see if it was worth all that work before I say whether or not I can do another one.
p.s. I will. "I always bring my dairy with me. One should always have something sensational to read on the train." We were watching The Importance of Being Earnest the other night.
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