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⌈ Secret Post #5886 ⌋

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[Stargate SG-1]

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10. [WARNING for discussion of incest]

[Vampire Game]

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11. [WARNING for possible discussion of transphobia (JK Rowling related)]

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12. [WARNING for discussion of transphobia, other bigotry, suicide]

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Since Post #5874, with the 'favourite fic book-binding' secret, I've had a bug in my ear, and now I kind of want to follow suit - get my favourite story I've ever written stealth-published through Amazon and buy myself an author copy so I can see it in print, as a little birthday gift to me. I know the idea got support last time it was brought up; but since I'd be doing it for a me-story and not another person's story, is it a different ball game? Am I being wasteful?

I think this is neat and I would do it if I ever wrote anything besides shortfic!

You could do an anthology of your shortfic?

I guess! I'm okay with AO3 just having it available.

Maybe I'd do it one day.

If you want a quality binding... indie author here... use lulu.com not Amazon.

lulu also (last I knew) had a 'private publish' button. So you can get yourself a copy and not have in their 'public print' stuff. I would also hope/think lulu might be easier to format than Amazon. It depends on how well you can work with word/pdfs and follow templates. Amazon's err... instructions aren't always clear.

DA but thank you! I'm far from ready to publish but I'm always interested in the options that aren't Amazon. I don't want my work there, good or bad, public or private.

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Here is the thing, there is no such thing as really "private" POD publishing on Amazon. There's no little checkbox for "I'm doing this for myself." In order to get that cute little author's copy (and any proofs for your cover) you have to push that publish button, choose a price, enter tax info etc.

I'm not sure about Lulu as a space as I haven't used it, but the books I've seen that have used it, have very good bindings and I fairly certain of the 'I'm doing this for friends/family/private' option. They started out for like wedding albums and stuff. So, while they've expanded I think into the POD/vanity publishing, their origins are different than Amazon KDP. (And sometimes, that makes all the difference.)

Yeah, I don't really care about mass distribution (lol I've given up on the idea tbh) or anything, but I do feel really strongly about whose "hands" touch the book, if that makes sense, and I think something like POD is exactly what I want (and I can dream my little writer dreams of a dozen people finding copies in the wild that change their lives in quiet little ways <3). I know there are a lot of options with those, though, so I'm still studying which site works best for me!

I'm fairly new to self-publishing generally, so I had no idea Lulu was an option! Thanks for letting me know, I'll check that out today

Okay, I'm definitely prioritizing Lulu from now on? The cover designing tool is so much fun!

Depending on how much you're willing to pay, I happen to know someone is raffling custom fic binding for the Fandom Trumps Hate event this time around.

OP of that secret

Sounds like an excellent idea to me :)

You're not being wasteful! You're allowed to be proud of your work, plenty of authors do this, go for it!

But yeah, lulu not amazon.

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