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For those of you who remember the old Cali Forums, you may recall Deep Space Doris: the worlds oldest astronaut...pretty much how I feel.
But I digress. After 10 years or more I finally made a book from it. Its a 70 page illustrated book for older kids and my biggest yet. I am so happy to have committed to this and made something other than a few concept images.
Its here: http://www.lulu.com/product/ebook/deep- ... g/18960340" but has been submitted to iBooks and the Nook Store.

Not trying to sell it, just wanted to share the news within a group where most might appreciate the work that goes into making something like this using trueSpace.

I also started a page on Facebook to promote it:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Deep-Spac ... 7153544523"

hooyah!

Got my order in, downloaded and read to read on the old acrobat reader!

I skimmed through and found Doris standing in the rain on Bingo night! I thought we resolved this issue!
(taps foots)

Okay, well it looks like a grand presentation and I'm a proud subscriber to Doris the 'book' er.. Doris the 'EBook' er 'Doris the Deep Space Explorer!'

Thank you sir! You are a scholar and a gentleman (not necessarily in that order.)

its always raining...
Can't tell if you are joking James, did you actually buy the ebook on a PC? If you did, many thanks. I only really envisaged it selling on tablets or as part of the web experience. Would be interested to hear how it looks/reads on other devices.
Oh, there is a sample of the book to download for free but its about 10% of the whole books. Still, its free.

splinters wrote:its always raining...
Can't tell if you are joking James, did you actually buy the ebook on a PC? If you did, many thanks. I only really envisaged it selling on tablets or as part of the web experience. Would be interested to hear how it looks/reads on other devices.
Oh, there is a sample of the book to download for free but its about 10% of the whole books. Still, its free.

Yup, I purchased the book for my PC. I have a cell phone, but its so old it has a battery supply with wheels!



My grandchldren come to visit so I will let them read it as a reward for good behavior.

Of course, I like to read the storyline and look at the images you skillfully crafted through the years. I may allow my mother to read it as she's an artist in the 'china painting' world - only if she behaves herself though.

I'm very happy you got Doris out their first, she deserves it!

Thank you for sharing your talents.

Thank you James, your trust in me will be rewarded. Drop me an email to info@buddyworldbooks.com and I will sort you out an online pass so the kids can read all the books and play the interactive games as much as they want for the next 6 months...

Congratulations Paul... well done.

Congratulations!

Cogratulations Paul !
Doris is cool !
Glad to see you back on this board again !
Peter

Best wishes Paul from us all, and I think we all are in agreement when I say that I hope that it sells a ton of copied. Greetings to all TBW. Leroy.

Weird, it looks like my reply didn't post yesterday.

Anyway... Congrats Paul! It looks like quite an accomplishment!

I would like to share this with my friends that have kids. What would you say is the target age group for Deep Space Doris?

My wife says some of her Year 2 kids could read this so I guess a confident 6-7 year old could read it.
I gave it to an intelligent 15 year old who thought is was 'amazing'..his words not mine.
I tried to take the concept of a graphic novel, story and picture book and aim it at older readers than any of my other books which are aimed at younger readers or parents of children to read.
At 70 pages and 7000 words long it took me about 30 mins to read through it and look at the pics as if I were reading for the first time.
Of course, it is episodic so you could read a few pages at a time.
Over the years I have found that the books appeal to a wide range. Adults enjoy some of the dry humour running through them and nearly everybody enjoys the illustrations. Older kids with reading difficulties enjoy the stories I aimed at much you ger children.
A languages teacher is very keen to work with me to use them to teach English as a second language...I guess the pictures will help tell the story.

I do know one thing, it looks lovely on the new iPad...

Cool, ty Paul! I'll share it on my social networks sometime next week. I've found posts often go unnoticed on the weekends, especially a holiday weekend with much nicer than average weather. So it will get more views if I post it in the middle of the week.

congratulations on making your dream come true and never gave up! I have a big respect for finishing something big like this by yourself.

Thanks guys. Any and all support is much appreciated.

Already on with the sequel.

Many, many congrats, Paul. Your work has always been a great inspiration to me and I'm glad to hear your years of toil are now starting to reward you financialy as well as artisticaly.

Truth be told, I was the "intelligent 15 year old" used as a guinea pig who admired your work...
OK I lied.......but only about me being 15 and intelligent...

Nice to see you have stuck with your vision Paul. It seems to be rewarding finally.

Thanks guys...I am a persistent little bugger. Doesn't mean its any good but its mine and told and illustrated the way I wanted rather than directed by an agent or publisher.
Has anyone bought it and tried it out apart from James? I added DRM to this one and I suspect its the reason it is taking a little longer to get into the iBookstore even though it is showing as listed.
James, did you have any problem viewing it on your PC?

Well, this appeared in Barnes and Noble's Nookstore a few weeks ago but still no sign of it in the ibookstore. They have a bit of a backlog apparently...

sweet, just purchased this on my nook. Looking forward to reading it


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Paul, a heads up here. The book formatting on nook is a bit off on nook. The right side of each page is cut off and it is not centered on the screen. Are you able to fix it or is it in the hands of the store now? I would hate to see people leave any negative reviews for a format issue. The book is fantastic.

Wasnt this thread 4 pages long? Seems to have disappeared...

Hi Splinters,

Glad to hear you are selling some books. Sorry about the Nook trouble.

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