Peter May wrote:
What would immediately deter me from buying this book is that it 'ships only from USA' - so costing international shipping charges.
The formatting is funny -- why are the lines of text so short? And why are the last sentences of the paragraphs centred??
Can only see the first two pages of your story so can't comment further -- you might want to update your preview to remove the blank pages and give some more of the story.
Thanks for your feedback. I will tend your questions in order.
1. I have it set for 1.25in inner and outter (left and right in Word) margins, as that has not been too bad on print editions previous to this one. After all, words were cut off by the spine and moving them away from the spine made them right justified, instead of justified.
a. Some people have said that some lines are spaced too far out in normal justification alignment, something that could not be fixed easily in Word, before I switched to a different program for layouts. In that program, I told it that I wanted the last line centered, but all the rest justified, since it looked better.
2. I'll see what I can do about the blank pages in the preview. You can get all of chapter one as a preview for the epub edition, in the meantine.
As for the "only from USA" comment, I don't know of a way around it, since Lulu is the one dealing with pricing, in terms of shipping. I'll see if there is something around the net on that.
I am grateful that you took the time to post the response.
Update: Preview now contains first two chapters and blank pages have been removed from preview. I'm still looking at the "ships only from USA" thing.
Update 2: There is nothing that I can about the "ships only from USA/North America" thing. Also, as I know now that this is in the wrong category, can somebody move it to Author Spotlight?
