I think I'm done with the manuscript for this bilingual version of my little book. Lots of little details needed to be checked, rechecked, and reworked. I'm happy to have the Korean text in there: it thickens the book and makes the spine roomier for text. This in turn means I can once again try to make a print-on-demand paperback. Unfortunately, that's going to require me to rearrange the manuscript's format for American dimensions (6" × 9" or something). The manuscript I worked on on Thursday conformed to the metric standard of a B5 sheet of paper, which is a wee bit bigger at 176 mm × 250 mm, or about 6.9" × 9.8". The ms (manuscript) is 154 pages long, including some blank ones that are in there for formatting's sake.
I also began working on a new front cover that will be bilingual as well, and later today (Friday), I'll be revising the back cover and spine, too. Once I have everything ready to go, I'll email the print shop near SNU and make a request to print maybe twenty copies of the new, fatter book. After I get that done, I'll see about reformatting the whole thing for Amazon's print-on-demand service. The service wasn't very good last time, but I often wonder whether that was simply because the book itself was so small and thin that the machines weren't able to put on enough padding compound to make the pages stick to the spine/binding, which is why pages kept falling out. Amazon's page requirements were such that I had too few pages in my original English-only manuscript to justify having any spine text (where the title, author name, and publisher name all go). This time, with a book guaranteed to be twice as thicc, I'll be able to upload a spine graphic as well. Woo-hoo!
Okay, I think that's it for tonight. I'm punching out and going to bed soon.
ADDENDUM: I'm still working on this; design suggestions are welcome:
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| bilingual version of the original cover |
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