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officialyourdailyinspiration · 2 months

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Christ in You, The Hope of Glory

27 Those to whom God has chosen to make known what is the wealth of the glory of this mystery among the nations, which is The Messiah, who is in you, the hope of our glory, 28 Him whom we preach; and we teach and we educate every person in all wisdom, to confirm every person as perfected in Yeshua The Messiah; — Colossians 1:27-28 | Peshitta Holy Bible (PESH) The Peshitta Holy Bible Translated by Glenn David Bauscher Copyright © 2018 Lulu Publishing; 3rd edition Copyright © 2019 Cross References: Ezra 7:25; Matthew 5:48; Matthew 13:11; Acts 20:31; Romans 2:4; Romans 8:10; 1 Corinthians 2:6; Ephesians 1:7; Ephesians 1:18; Ephesians 3:16; Ephesians 4:13; Colossians 1:22; Colossians 2:3; 1 Timothy 1:1

#God #hope #teaching #wisdom #chosen #mystery #glory #Colossians 1:27-28 #The Epistle of Colossians #New Testament #PESH #Peshitta Holy Bible (formerly the Aramaic Bible in Plain English)#Lulu Publishing

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highflyartist · 1 year

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HEY GUYS!!!

Big news!

Me and @kate66s 's book is now published on Lulu.com!

You can buy it for just $17.95!

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For updates and more of our work:

#nutcracker #the nutcracker #poems of a forgotten past #diary of a hawaiian clara #the nutcracker and the silver bell #lulu #lulu publishing #self publishing #kate66s #ken leavitt #highflyartist

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nanoficto92 · 1 year

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Things I learned after publishing my first book

Last year I published my first book, a poetry book called "Poems For Pennies". I published it through Lulu and thought it was the smart way to go. While Lulu does make things easy as far as the actual publishing side of things goes, there's one big problem that makes me regret using Lulu.

Sales updates

I didn't know before hand that sales would take up tot six to eight weeks to show up. They aren't exactly the most on the ball when showing the sales. So for the longest time, until I joined Post, I thought my book was dead in the water, it wasn't selling. Go figure, it turned out that Lulu just wasn't showing me the sales.

I've seen more comments on Post, here in reblogs, an actual review of my book, to even know that people were purchasing and enjoying my book. Lulu still hasn't shown me the sales other than the two proof copies I ordered last year.

I genuinely wish they at least showed pending purchases or estimated sales. They say the reason it takes so long is because of the different retailers, but I'm starting to think it's just a Lulu thing.

I'm so glad that people enjoy my book. I'm so grateful for the love and support I've been getting on my writing journey. I honestly didn't even think people were looking at "Poems For Pennies" because of Lulu. I'm so glad to know I was wrong and that people have actually been looking into it.

#books #lulu publishing #self publishing #writing lessons #authors of tumblr

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copperbadge · 10 months

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Every time, you guys. Every time I look into alternatives to Lulu.com for self-publishing I come up with “Wow Lulu really is the best of a bad set of options, huh?”

Recently, Draft2Digital bought Smashwords in order to bring a print book company under their aegis; they’d formerly only done ebooks. I thought I might investigate them as an alternative to Lulu, which I’ve used for about twelve years now. For ebooks I would venture D2D is probably top of the line. For print books they are....not.

I’m writing this out half so other folks can see it but half so that in the future I can look this up and remind myself of why I’m still with Lulu.

TLDR: Not only does Draft2Digital want 60% of my print book royalties where Lulu takes 0%, and $30 for a proof that costs me $11 at Lulu, but I also appear to have solved the problem of why Lulu was making me price my books so goddamn artificially high. Which is like. Honestly the best anti-anxiety drug I’ve experienced this week.

Basically there are a number of elements that go into self-publishing with a print-on-demand service. For some publishers, there’s a “setup fee” which doesn’t really set anything up, it’s just there to be a fee, everything is done by computer on the back end. Traditionally, Lulu has not charged a setup fee. Smashwords used to charge $50, but Draft2Digital currently waives it. I was heartened by that because the setup fee was keeping me from migrating, since I can afford $50 but I balk at knowing I’m paying them $50 for nothing.

Next is the cost of printing -- what it costs the company in paper, ink, machinery, labor, etc, to just make a book with no profit. Lulu’s price calculus isn’t super clear and I’ve never bothered looking at what the breakdown is, because they’re pretty up-front -- they tell you in the process of setting the book up how much it’ll cost. In this case, a 140-page 6x9 trade paperback, no frills, which is how all my books are printed, is $5. Draft2Digital doesn’t tell you the flat price anywhere but they do offer the breakdown information; it costs $1.22 flat plus $0.0133 per page. So, for a 140 page book, the at-cost is $3.08. So far so good.

Now, if you’re going to sell through Lulu, the “at cost” is the minimum price. You won’t make any money but you CAN charge just $5 for a $5 book. Any pricing above that is your cut. So -- let’s price this 140 page trade paperback at $13-$15. That’s a bit high to be honest but let’s just see. At Lulu, your take is roughly $6-$8 based on those prices, because you’re just dropping out the cost of printing from the retail price.

At Draft2Digital, the same 140-page trade paperback, which remember is quoted as costing roughly $1.20 less to print than Lulu charges, gets you $2.75-$3.50 in royalties per book.

....wait, what?

So now we need to sidetrack a little but I promise it’s for a reason. One of the motivations for looking into a change to Draft2Digital is that I didn’t like that Lulu was setting higher “minimum prices” than I was accustomed to -- they would tell me the book only cost $5 to print but require me to sell it for $12 or similar, and I couldn’t work out why. I’m an idiot but the penny did finally drop: it’s because when you distribute them outside of Lulu (say, on Amazon or Barnes & Noble or similar) your royalties drop like a stone. $7 in royalties purchased through Lulu comes out to like twenty-five cents purchased through Amazon. So Lulu forces you to price the book at a point where you even GET royalties and don’t end up weirdly owing Amazon money. The “global distribution” is what’s driving that minimum up.

So in price-quoting a competitor I actually solved the problem with Lulu.

Which is good, because the fun doesn’t stop there. If you want a proof copy of a book from Lulu, it’s the at-cost of the book, plus tax, plus postage. Buying a proof copy of this book from Lulu would cost me $11. Lulu makes you order a new proof copy every time you make a change, which is shady, but usually I only need to make 1-2 changes across the life of a book, so at most the cost will probably be $35 and for that I’ll get three copies of the book. Draft2Digital doesn’t give you an option. If you want a proof pre-publication, it’s $30 flat. If you want to publish and then buy a copy you can, but you can only make one change to the book every 90 days once it’s published. If you want to make more than one change, it’s $25 every time you upload a new version of the manuscript within that 90 day period.

So Draft2Digital’s books cost less to print but they take a massive cut of your royalties out of the retail cost of the book. If the book costs $3 to print, and I price it at $15, that’s $12 in profit on the book. Of that $12, however, I only receive $4. Draft2Digital literally wants 2/3 of my royalties per book. They want $20 more than Lulu to send me a proof copy. If I need to correct the proof, the correction is free, but I’m assuming the second proof will also cost me $30. Any changes after that, within 90 days, will cost $25 plus $30 for a new proof.

Which means my upfront costs at Lulu are about $35 per published book; to do the same thing at Draft2Digital is between $60 and $105 depending on whether I need to make changes after the second proof copy. And even after that, my royalties at Lulu are just about twice what they would be at Draft2Digital per purchase.

So, well, Lulu it is. And the problem I was having with Lulu is solved if I decide to just retail through Lulu rather than selling globally. Which...selling globally has done two things that I’m aware of:

1. Fucked up my author page so badly on Amazon that one of my books is still attributed to Kathleen Starbuck, and one of her books is for sale on my author page.

2. Raised the minimum price I’m allowed to set my books at by like, 40%.

So I think probably what’s going to happen is going forward my books will be for sale only on Lulu. I can still assign them ISBNs and they still will ship worldwide, and the prices will fall significantly. My deepest apologies to those of you who have paid an artificially inflated price for the last few books; I’m going to fix that going forward, I’m going to go in and try to fix it retroactively in the books that are already on Lulu, and if it’s any consolation at least the cash came to me, and TWO THIRDS OF IT didn’t go to Lulu.

It’s gonna take me a little time, untangling Lulu’s relationship to other retailers is tricky, but eventually the Shivadh Omnibus and Twelve Points should come down significantly in price, and there ought to be a dollar or two drop for the older books as well.

This is why it always pays to do the math, even if like me you are dreadful at it.

#selfpub #self publishing #publishing #draft2digital #lulu #archive

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tiffanytoms · 3 months

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I got another one of my stories printed guys ☺️💕 And oooo she thicc-thic 🤗

(As always, my dog is very proud 😍)

Shout out to the lulu website for printing, I still highly recommend 🩵

(Wickedly Twisted is 120k for reference! I can’t believe how much like a LEGIT BOOK it looks like!)

#jily #Jily BOOK #jily smut #book publishing #book publication #book printing #lulu #wickedly twisted #windbyfire #fanfic things #MY BOOK #😍😍😍#good vibes

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goldkeycomics · 6 months

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Star Trek: The Enterprise Logs reprint the bulk Gold Key's Star Trek publsihed between 1967-1976.

Golden Press, like Dell, is part of the long line of comics associated with Western Publishing Co., Inc.

#golden press #gold key #whitman comics #dell comics #western publishing company inc #star trek #tubby #little lulu #john stanley #alberto giolitti

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inevitably-johnlocked · 9 months

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Look what came in today!!

@gaylilsherlock has two beautiful books up on Lulu:

The Wheel Turns

The Agony and the Ecstasy of Sherlock Holmes

Shipping was SUPER quick, I ordered these on Sunday!!!!

The books are beautiful, and I am happy to support you <3

#gaylilsherlock #published fics #lulu books #johnlock fanfiction

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libraryleopard · 1 year

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Adult romance novel

Second-chance romance about two authors (one of literary fiction, one of paranormal romance) who spent a week in love as teenagers before they were torn apart until they reunite twenty years later and must confront that they’ve been unable to forget each other in the intervening years–and may have a chance for a real future together now

Complicated romance with a real connection at the heart and equally real barriers to happiness the two protagonists must confront

Explores addiction, trauma, and living with an invisible disability (chronic migraines)

Black main characters

#very good second-chance romance!#the obstacles to their relationship felt very real #but so did the chemistry/connectionn #tbh i was way more interested in the present-day stuff than the flashbacks #there was a bit of 'huh that's it?' when i got to the end of their first week together #but i really enjoyed the present-day timeline #good balance of humor/romance/serious topics i think #liked the author aspect and the commentary on the publishing world #also i have read two books this year (this plus yerba buena)#where a character is researching her creole family's history #and now i want to read a historical fiction novel about creole communities #will have to do some googling #oh and this would make a good movie or miniseries i think #seven days in june #tia williams #2023 reads #i remember this from the tiffany achy books i think!#lulu speaks #lulu reads seven days in june #books #last note: this is a romance novel but deals with some quite serious topics #so i might suggest checking content warnings if you need to know that kind of stuff

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nerdsleaze · 1 year

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Romancelvania

Take a bite into Romancelvania, a darkly comic genre mashup, combining side-scrolling action and tongue-in-cheek romance into an absurd and unforgettable adventure.

Play as a lovelorn, brooding Drac who, after a century of moping around post-heartbreak, is thrown into a monster reality-dating show, hosted by the Grim Reaper! Explore Transylvania's perilous countryside as you slay absurd baddies on your hunt for the most eligible monsters.

Will Drac find "Love at first Bite", or discover "Love Sucks"?

Find out by playing the game now.

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legionofmyth · 1 year

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We need TTRPG books via Print on Demand & Lulu sucks!

Opinions & Commentary: 🎲 There are times when it is understandable that a publisher does not offer a PDF with the Print on Demand option. However, there are other times when we need that Print on Demand option. #DnD #dnd5e #ttrpg #ttrpgcommunity

There are times when it is understandable that a publisher or designer does not offer a PDF with the Print on Demand option. However, there are other times when we need books via Print on Demand. Many people point to Lulu, but Lulu is a crap company that doesn’t like to take your money for honest prints. 📢 Let us know what you think about the video below, or if you believe we made any mistakes,…

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#best ttrpg books #drive thru rpg print on demand review #Dungeons and Dragons #free league alien rpg #free league publishing #game collection #lulu #lulu press self publishing #lulu self publishing #lulu self publishing review #mutant mechatron pdf #mutant year zero mechatron #print on demand #print on demand websites #print pdf file #role-playing game #TTRPG

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loreeebee · 2 months

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Stillbirths, Miscarriages, and Healthy Pregnancies: G9P3A3

Daily writing promptHow has a failure, or apparent failure, set you up for later success?View all responses I wrote this story years after my three stillbirths, three miscarriages, and three healthy pregnancies (AKA as G9P3A3) with humor, candor, wisdom, and hindsight, all things I did not have much of at the time. Hopefully, my story will provide inspiration and comfort to others that have or…

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#dailyprompt #dailyprompt-1868 #G9P3A3 #Lulu #miscarriages #pregnancy #print-on-demand #self-publish #stillbirths

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tanadrin · 10 months

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by far the most interesting part of the latest You’re Wrong About on homosexuality in the animal kingdom is the account of how science missed it for so long. the guest, lulu miller (of radiolab fame) basically divides the reasons into three categories: ignorance, self-suppression, and what you might call “official” suppression.

essentially, since the days of thomas aquinas when it had been simply declared that homosexuality was inherently against nature, you had a lot of observers of the natural world, even once the enlightenment got underway, who simply didn’t know what they were looking at. many animal species are very sexually dimorphic and thus easy to sex; but many more are not, and if your background assumption (because the background assumption of society in general) is that homosexuality does not occur in nature, if you see two animals of unidentified sex mating, you will assume one is male and one is female. or you might simply assume what you are seeing is an aberration, with no real systemic significance, and not pointing to any kind of underlying phenomenon, and simply fail to note it down--or talk to any other naturalists about it.

and this blends into self-suppression, which includes all researchers who might have noticed homosexuality among animals in the wild, but didn’t write about it. this includes researchers who might not have thought it was significant, or who might have thought nobody was interested in it--miller offers the example of a guy who died relatively recently who spent his life studying mountain rams, who omitted mentioning from his quite detailed survey of their behavior that about one in twelve males mate exclusively with other males, because it seemed to him (at the time of writing) an aberrant and unpleasant fact about an otherwise majestic creature.

“official” suppression we might apply to any time a researcher noticed and wanted to write about the phenomenon, but who simply couldn’t get their data published, including researchers who might have pressed the scientific community at large to recognize this phenomenon, only to be greeted with hostility and suspicion--i.e., what kind of pervert is so obsessed with this topic?

and out of a combination of all these factors you get centuries of a bias being confirmed, because anybody who might care to ask, “well, homosexuality clearly occurs in humans, have we observed it in other animals?” would have been confronted with a vast lacuna in the scientific literature, not because it did not occur, but because multiple intersecting cultural biases prevented anybody from actually talking about it. and it makes it hard to have a conversation about natural phenomena from an empirical and rational perspective when a bias that irrational runs that deep! and i cannot help but wonder what other biases we have in our culture, that might be producing similarly irrational lacunae in our apprehension of the world.

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deangrahamrpg · 1 year

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How Books Are Made: From PDF To Printed & Bound

“Have you ever wondered how a book is made? Join us on a bindery tour as we share an inside look at how a book is printed and bound in this post from the Lulu blog:”

https://blog.lulu.com/how-books-are-made-from-pdf-to-printed-bound/

#lulu #publishing #books

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carolynsehgal · 1 year

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