DUDE! your fanfiction turned book is incredible! what was the process getting that done like?
Hi anon, thank you! I love it so much too!!!
Well, I only printed it, I didn't publish it or anything as that would be a copyright nightmare xD
I used the website epubli to print it, and the process to find that one was... A journey xD most printing sites are either expensive af if you don't want to buy in bulk or don't let you preview how it will look printed or don't let you design your own cover or don't have any individual settings or or or... So I was very happy when I found that one!
Howeverrr then at first it didn't read my pdf file correctly, showed it in fucking Wingdings instead of actual letters xD took a while until I figured out that I had to export the file as a pdf from Word instead of printing it to pdf... Still don't know why that was necessary.
Then I uploaded it and went through all the pages to only select the ones with pictures to print in colour, and then I (thankfully) saved in between that and doing the rest of the setting edits: paperback, thick-ish but cheap pages, this weird book format, etc... But I didn't save in-between that and buying it, and apparently the website hadn't registered these settings yet! Even tho my price that it showed then at checkout was the correct one!!!, the money they took was for the more expensice default settings hardcover, A5 & shiny photo pages... And they didn't believe me when I told them that wasn't what I bought, even tho I had a screenshot! Should be illegal, fix the damn website fuckers. Anyways I didn't keep fighting them on it bc it's just a few € and now I do have a very pretty hardcover version of the book (with slightly too big letters bc the format's wrong & with shiny photo pages lmfao, but at least the art is pretty on those?)... So, quite a ride!
For the cover art I just asked the artists whether I could use them, and the illustrations are actually made for the story by my friend @jackwolfskid <3<3 loved our collaboration, and she's also getting a print of the book!
My print of In Your Stead
