Planning a DIY book publication
Crafty zines, flip books and self publishing is becoming really popular. You can self publish anything from a novel, a DIY craft book to a book of photographs or illustrations, poetry, recipes and your memoirs. But how do you do it?
Caren at Ampersand Duck has written up an excellent resource for planning a small run of printing up your very own book. This sort of thing is perfect for artists books, illustrations, zines, DIY tutorials or book of poetry etc or any sort of publication.. Caren advises on types of printing, how to ask for a quote from a printer, and talking to your designer. :: Para Publishing has a very good resource on all the steps required to write, design, publish and market your own book. The producing your book section has good information. ::
No Media Kings also has some good resources to get you started on your self publishing venture. Action girl online has instructions for the most basic sort of DIY zine :: Papress has a snippet from their book DIY design on how-to make and self publish a zine.
Most of us has probably seen Croq zine if not in the flesh then on the internet somewhere, but there are lots of other crafty DIY zines and publications around: here are some recent finds : Crafty pod puts out a crafty zine :: Have you seen the Haiku Squirrel Zine :: or the Haiku monster zine :: Check out the cat flip book :: I really like the degrees of separation postcard book :: What about Jelly - miniature hardbound artist book - a stream of drawings and words from the subconscious mind :: Dual - fine art letterpressed book :: Urban landscapes - expressing the visual chaos of urban living ::
Images above are: 1. Scribble faster 2. sweetie pie 3. About town zine 4. The big exit 5. Grand magick zine 6. Twin graphic novel
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