Sights, Sounds, Words: Volume 1, my first collection of movie and book reviews, featuring reviews from 2004 to 2015, is now out as a perfect-bound paperback available through Amazon.com! I've just reviewed the copy I'd purchased, doing random checks on the table of contents (do the page numbers in the TOC match the actual page numbers of the chapters?) and the general text format (widows, orphans, runts, odd spacing, misspellings, poor punctuation, bad grammar, etc.), and overall, I'm generally satisfied that my gazillion little pre-upload checks have produced what appears to be a decent book. I might find errata later on that will mortify me, but for the moment, I'd say things are looking pretty good.
Coming in at 480 printed pages, Sights, Sounds, Words is on sale for $14.99. I'd warned other potential readers that the "dead tree" version of the book would be substantially more expensive than the ebook (only $2.99), but I know a lot of older people—including me—often prefer the heft of the real, printed page even if it means arboreal slaughter.
There's only one problem standing out to me right now: the way the front-cover image doesn't quite "bleed" to the edge. The tiny black margin going around the image is a bit bothersome. It's not tragic, but it nags at me. I might try fixing that and reuploading, but other than that, you should feel free to buy either the paperback or the ebook. I'll be working on implementing corrections to the ebook manuscript tonight while there seems to be a lull in purchases—not that I'm making or going to make much money on either of these editions.
 |
| with my address, QR codes, and barcodes blurred/mosaicked out |
 |
| front cover |
 |
| book's thickness and heft |
 |
| spine (Juasubul/좌수불/左手弗 means "Left-handed Buddha") |
 |
| Maybe later versions of the back cover will show some reader reviews. |
 |
| how the review for Batman Begins looks |
 |
| how an essay about Battlestar Galactica's deity looks |
 |
| how the review for Ender's Game (the movie) looks |
 |
| how the review for Interstellar looks |
 |
| Flipping way to the end, here's my current bio. |
Thank you in advance for your purchase!
No comments:
Post a Comment
READ THIS BEFORE COMMENTING!
All comments are subject to approval before they are published, so they will not appear immediately. Comments should be civil, relevant, and substantive. Anonymous comments are not allowed and will be unceremoniously deleted. For more on my comments policy, please see this entry on my other blog.
AND A NEW RULE (per this post): comments critical of Trump's lying must include criticism of Biden's or Kamala's or some prominent leftie's lying on a one-for-one basis! Failure to be balanced means your comment will not be published.