Some good news – my book The Clouds Still Hang has now been published by Amazon on CreateSpace. I must have read their terms too quickly at first and decided against CreateSpace because my book does contain some explicit sexual narrative. But thanks to the forums here where someone wrote “just tick the over 18s box” I decided to have a go.
It was a generally easy process. My cover wasn’t quite the right dimensions, instead of bouncing it as an error like some others, they corrected it for me. This helpful attitude pervaded the whole process. Based on advice here I decided to wait for a hard copy proof, which arrived the other day. Because of the caveats they placed I was wary but when it arrived it was fine – fully bound too. Other hard copy proofs have arrived ‘loose leaf’’ – don’t drop it!
The main benefit though is that the CreateSpace edition is priced at about 60% of the Lulu price and is of at least equal quality. While I still expect the bulk of sales, such as they are, to continue to be digital, the CreateSpace edition does offer hope of better sales for the paperback.