Publish A Family History at Lulu

I have been furiously at work on several family

histories for the last two months, so blogging

has taken a back seat.  

I was reading blogs one day and someone recommended

Lulu.com for publishing their blog, as it

was much cheaper than some of the other companies.

Sorry that I can't remember whose blog it was!

I was working on my dad's history and decided to give

Lulu.com a try.  I wasn't finished yet - maybe half done,

but I sent off for a book, just to see the quality and price

for what I would be getting.

I was THRILLED with what I got back from them.  The process was

super easy, and the price was incredibly reasonable compared 

to what I had paid for printing my blog.  

What was the most incredible part of the process was how

the quality of their printing and papers improved the look

of many of my old photos.  The oldest photos in black and

white are crisp and clean, but a lot of the photos from the

70's on are so poor, yet they printed out really nicely

in Lulu's book.

I just created a word document and uploaded it, previewed it

and created the covers using their formats.  The process was

so fast.  (My next one I saved in a PDF file and uploaded it, 

as they say they prefer that.)  I did not have to add to the
margin for binding, I just did a regular word document.
Talk about easy!

This one of my dad was just under 200 pages.  Once

I published one item with them, I started getting discount offers,

so I have waited to publish again until I got another discount offer.

With a discount, this book cost me $39.  I can order one, I can order as many as I want with additional discounts 

applying after 15.  I can

also give the information to family members who want a copy and

they can get on Lulu.com and order their own copies, without me

becoming the middle man.  It takes just about three weeks to receive the books in the mail.

I just submitted two more this week.  This one is about my grandparents and great grandparents.   I designed my own cover on Picmonkey for this one - I just did an 8x10 project for it.

And my niece designed this cover for the collection of my mother's

short fictional stories.  It ended up being just under 200 pages too.

I couldn't be more thrilled with the books I have published

with lulu.com.  I have not been compensated for this, I just 

have to tell you about things that I love!!

Unfortunately, they turned out so well that I have a whole list

of more that I want to write!  This makes doing family histories fun.

I will be posting this with

Metamorphosis Monday

The Scoop