Last year I enjoyed the Lulu free hardcover offer (I will try to remember to bring mine to the TGIO in case people want to see the construction); I'll be going after that again this year.

Whichsponsor offers are you going to try for?

I'm trying for:

• Lulu - one hardcover book - redeem by February 28th, 2015
• CreateSpace - two softcover book proofs - redeem by June 30, 2015
• Blurb - one softcover book + flowable e-book - redeem by January 31, 2015

How about you?

--Tim

Considering I probably won't be finished by February, I don't think I'll be claiming any winner goodies. I may look into getting that discounted Aeon Timeline, though.

I've never done the sponsor offers before, but I'm going to try to hit the deadline for the hardcover one, for the book I've been editing the past two years. Hopefully it'll get another draft finished by then to make it worthwhile.

I'm looking at CreateSpace.

Create space and lulu probably :)

Just pulled the trigger on the Blurb offer (expires January 31st!). My B&W "economy" cream paper book was worth about $5 which the code accounted for; I paid the $6 for shipping. The only hoop to jump through was using their bookwright software (Windows) to format the book. This software was okay for the cover but not intuitive for the text. You have to export your book in RTF format and then import it into bookwright. The import process creates "flowable text" boxes that are linked; but if you change the size of your font to something larger, you wind up with a problem because font changes do not add flowable text boxes and your text no longer fits in the book.

Bookwright does identify fonts that can be used for e-books (it creates one of those as well), so it is worth exploring to see what font you should use for the e-book part.

My Lulu hardcover from this year (front and back covers on the book jacket):