Re: The Prehistoric Peak: A Shameless Plug | Forum

common era Jun 18, 2009 15:00:58

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I'm kind of allowing myself 6 months to see if someone else will publish it and then if not, I will look at self publishing. I got 4 copies of the book printed for my immediate needs by a printer in Leominster (highly recommended). They have a fancy new HP Indigo printer, which for a digital printer is amazing. The quality looks just like litho at a fraction of the cost, so if push comes to shove I would use those guys to do a short run print.

Jane: Once I am clear of the next week or so of the show I am going to extract my head from it's currently embedded position in my posterior and emerge back into the real world, so a visit down that way will definitely be on the cards and I'll bring the book etc. for you to see - better than seeing it in a stuffy London gallery space any day :-) Enjoy the GP. It's the last one at Silverstone isn't it?

Yesterday I had to do my 30 minute presentation/assessment (it's called a VIVA, but no one can tell me what that stands for). Anyway, I felt I blew it and seemed to talk nothing but bollocks, but then half way through I suddenly realised that these people are not the audience I want to be talking to anyway, they have no interest in the subject really, it's you guys who I really want to show it to. Hopefully very soon I am going to post up a web site about the book and then I can get some real feedback.

Vybik Jon Jun 18, 2009 16:21:29

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Viva - short for viva voce. A typically confusing latin term that academcis love to use.

A fair translation of viva voce would be 'by live voice'. It's an opportunity for academic staff to see if a student can talk to their work and see if they have actually done anything.

We've had some classics down the years...

Kozmik_Ken Jun 19, 2009 09:43:16

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Have you thought about electronic publishing CE? Punters could download the book from your website - for a fee of course, which would help towards print publishing. Also, you could take advance orders and print short runs when you reach a designated amount of orders.

It's never going to be as cheap as a mass printed and distributed book - but it's quite a specialised market anyway. Often books like this start off as small press projects and improve with each revision over the years.