This Sunday morning marks the end of the Digging Deep initial fund raising effort. As of right now we only need $603 more, so if you haven’t given yet, please consider kicking down a few dollars toward the cause (see button in the right hand column there or click here). For those of you who have already done so, you know we’re offering rewards for our backers, and one of them is a bound version of the Month Without Monsanto blog, signed by me, the grateful author.
Of course, now that it’s looking like we might actually meet our goal, I have to figure out how best to produce said bound version of the blog. This will be my first foray into self publishing.
In total, I wrote about 75 blog posts about my Month Without Monsanto. None of them are terribly long, but I figure by the time I write an intro, I’m looking at an 80 page book at least. To produce this book/blog hybrid gem, I’ve decided to follow the model of Steve Almond’s “This Won’t Take But A Minute Honey.”
You don’t have to go any further than my last blog post to know I admire this guy and his writing, and the book is great (I actually bought two copies – one when it came out and the other when I realized he was going to be at AWP signing them and didn’t have my copy with me).
Almond used the Espresso Book Machine (EBM) to print his book. In an article in Writer’s Digest he talked about the economics of it, and if I remember right, it cost him about three dollars per book. That seems reasonable.
So now I just have to
1. Find an EBM (any ideas from the bloggosphere out there?)
2. Figure out how to format the content so it looks nice when it prints
3. Write and introduction
4. Figure out some cover art
Stay tuned. When I do find this EBM I will be sure to tell you all about it. In the meantime, go give a few dollars to my campaign – if only to watch me squirm as I figure out how to live up to my promises.
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