Dear all,
Here is the link to my author spotlight, which also contains the link to my wix.com website for the book!http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/CheesieG
Thank you so much everyone to your kind advice. In answer to lots of your questions, I understand that selling a relatively unknown self-published book at one of the UK's most popular book stores is probably a miracle and may not happen, but everything's worth a try. Having said this, I'm hoping that as a junior and local author I am offering something different to the mix- selling books at even one store is a notable achievement to me! I have sold quite a few copies of my book now, even if I gave away lots for free to family and friends and am really positive about the book's future 
Lulu.com is a great site and I'm so glad I found a way to self-publish! With regards to promoting, I've printed posters for around my village, two libraries have copies of my book (Dream) and I have also spread the word through friends who may be interested, although I will try and do more. As many of you will probably know (especially if you have tried to publish a book through another publisher), authors often face being rejected by numerous companies or potential buyers many times before true success. I would also like to add that I'm happy with the formatting of my book, even if it's different to the norm- thank you for taking the time out to mention it, though! Finally (and this is not regarding any of the comments in reply to my question particularly), I'd just like to finish by saying that it's not nice to get your confidence knocked and that advice, in my opinion, is sensitive as well as informative. None of your comments have sparked this, I just wanted to get that statement out there before anything is said that could be hurtful.
Thank you!
CheesieG
best of luck Cheesie! Your book reminds me, from what I've seen, of a couple of Osbourne Books I read a year or so ago. Maybe you should approach them?
Also, you might be interested in this FB group I run... Kindle Family Fiction
- D.M. Andrews
The book is sensibly priced, unlike so many.
I am not sure if it is deliberate, but the cropping around the girl is very untidy.
You have no Title Page. The Copyright Page is a bit 'scant' apart from the huge ISBN barcode, which should not be there. Only the ISBN number should be there.
You also have page numbering starting there and it should not do.
You do need spacing between words and = , but I would not use = anyway. Perhaps that is better as a table with headers? That page does not actually say what it is though. It's a Glossary, but it says it is Part One. I think page 3 is part of that? There seems to be a problem with your layout. The pages start half way down the page pushing the text on the another page.
Some of your tabulation is way out.
The story is an interesting concept, but even though you offer a glossary of a few words, English is far removed from how we speak today, and yet you are in no way writing in that style. The way it was written is perhaps the main reason many people say they do not understand it! http://www.museangel.net/speak.html
They did not exactly even use the same alphabet. 24 letters, not 26.
But I suppose one can go too far with realism.
