I do ♥ LuLu. It really puts the vanity in vanity publishing.
You can now buy for like six bucks plus shipping the following real --- and most likely flammable --- item: (or you can download the PDF and print it yourself, stitching it together with perhaps some string you stole from the robe of a passing benedictine monk, you cheap bastard)
It includes various fictionalities that leak beyond merely the contents, e.g.
The bad news is I didn't succeed at getting any sort of useful automatic SWF→PDF conversion toolchain going. I just gave up because text was too god damned hard, and copied and pasted between the illustrator files that Flash exported and inDesign.
You can now buy for like six bucks plus shipping the following real --- and most likely flammable --- item: (or you can download the PDF and print it yourself, stitching it together with perhaps some string you stole from the robe of a passing benedictine monk, you cheap bastard)
It includes various fictionalities that leak beyond merely the contents, e.g.
- Made-up publisher
- Made-up author
- Made-up review quotes
- Extra-false author bio
- Dubious but realistic UPC on the back cover
- Dubiouser but almost plausible Cataloging-in-Publication data on the copyright page, except my em-dashes got fucked up somehow.
The bad news is I didn't succeed at getting any sort of useful automatic SWF→PDF conversion toolchain going. I just gave up because text was too god damned hard, and copied and pasted between the illustrator files that Flash exported and inDesign.