So why have I been having sleepless nights and nocturnal tendencies? I've been busy building some books ready to publish at Blurb.com, I have constructed a whole entire poetry book and 3 photo books and hope in the near future to get a few copies, you can buy one or many, personally I want just a few copies of each for my own use, but you can sell books through blurb and earn the profit off the sales. Which may come in useful if I earn enough profits after a while to put towards a new camera. But the only rule is you must buy at least one copy of your book before making it available through blurb, Not a problem as I want copies anyway. They have this neat little program you can download for free called booksmart, which enables you to view your book page by page as you edit it and preview the entire thing from cover to spine to front and back page.

You can create all sorts of books with it, then when you're ready you upload your final design to blurb and start the purchasing process etc. I'm so far pretty happy with it as I'm not planning on buying a whole lot of books from it just a few of each I make for friends and family and myself of course, the ocassional gift if you like. So costs are not too bad bearing that in mind. I'm pretty happy so far with how the books appear in the program and hope to get some purchased in the near future to test drive the finished results. It all seems pretty cool to me anyway and I could use a portfolio for my photography and a copy of that book would be a nice start. If you're looking to self publish on a small scale like myself it may be worth looking at the site link above for further details. If you're mega rich you might want to bulk purchase and they offer that service too! But I'm not, so I'm starting small.

Anyone interested in purchasing my photography or poetry follow the link box at the top of this message!