BOOKS – Artists! Here’s How You Get Your Art in a Book on Amazon.

Simpsons Quotes:

I heisted myself to the bestseller list once again. And the most brilliant part is I don’t even know how to read. – Neil Gaiman

As artists, creating a book with our art has become something of a tradition. If we draw independent comics and we want to get them printed, we also need to find a good printer or a print on demand printer.

Today, I’m going to be talking about the print on demand printer Createspace.

You can watch the video below or simply read what I have to say under it.  It’s the same info either way:

A Need For a Print Book

I have a drawing website where I teach drawing as if I was teaching Kung Fu.  If you’ve read my blog frequently enough I’m sure you’ve heard me mention it.

One of the things I did on the site was put together a digital book with all the information on the site. This was done so that there would be a slightly more convenient way to consume the information without needing to go to the site.

But I also wanted to have a print copy of that book. So to do this, I went on Createspace which is a print on demand site owned by Amazon.

Now my experience with Createspace is through my wife.  She uses it to publish her Grey Tower series of books.  The print books really look good and are good quality.

The thing is that I didn’t know how it would work for a book that wasn’t just prose.

I said, “what the heck. Let’s give it a try,” and I created a print book on Createspace.  Once I did that, I ordered the proof and I got it.

How Well do Art Books Come Out in Createspace?

It looks great, for the most part.  I think the colors on the cover are too dark and I’m going to need to fix that.  But the interior of the book, the way it feels, the way it’s bound, I’m very happy with.

I won’t lie, it was pain in the neck to put it all together myself.  I created the interior pdf, I created the cover and use the template that was give to me, by Createspace for it.

You can have them do it but it will cost you a few hundred dollars.  I wasn’t willing to spend the money so I did it myself.  BUT now that I know how to do it, my next attempt will be my Angel Cowgirl digital book, that I give away for free if you subscribe to my newsletter. I’m going to make that a print book as well.

My point is, if you want to have a high quality book of your art or a children’s book or whatever,  Createspace, isn’t a bad choice.

Once I finally approve the book proof, the book will automatically be submitted into Amazon and will be sold through there, which is great.   You can’t ask for a better online store to be on.

Do I Recommend It?

So yeah, I’m happy with the results so far fromCreatespace.  So like I said, for an artist that might want to get his work in some sort of print book, this is a very good option.

Have you used Createspace? Let me know, I’ll like to know what you’re experience with it is.

PODCASTS – Uploading a The Corner Booth to iTunes

I’ve mentioned this before but I’ll mention this again, I’m on a podcast.

If you’re looking for it in iTunes, you won’t find it.  It’s because I haven’t uploaded it to iTunes yet.  Even though we have four episodes published so far.

The podcast is called The Corner Booth and you can find it at thecornerbooth.net.

I’m in the process of putting the podcast up on iTunes.  As soon as it’s up, I’ll let you know.

Besides the podcasts we’ve already published, we have SIX in “the can,” five of which are ready to go.  As soon I republish all the original episodes, I’ll start uploading the new ones.

Stay tuned. There’s some great shows coming up.

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