). Been working on two novels for about a year or two now and had some meetings with agents and publishers but basically the Oirish publishing industry is down to “Yeah we might publish it, but you’d need to advance buy the first 150 copies yourself to cover our risk”.
Fuck. That.
A mate then suggested I look into self-publishing and self-marketing. So I did and ended up publishing my first novel “Lads Incorporated” this week through Lulu.com Publishing. Have to admit it was a lot of work, you have to format it just right, and set the cover image just so, and MSWord is the biggest pain in the arse to work with. It's an "adult" comedy and if you are easily offended I'd avoid it tbh!
But I've had all positive feedback from the few people I let proof read it prior to publishing.Anyway, it’s published.
Paperback is £16.48 (€19.99) of which I receive about €6. As that is admittedly a bit pricey for a paperback I also set up an ebook version at £6.59 (€7.99) of which I receive about €5.
Here’s a link to my Lulu.com page where anyone that wants to can buy a copy; http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/Alan_Paul_Kelly
The second novel is a military/conspiracy thriller and should be published in the next week or two – if I ever get the time to finish the fucking formatting.
Oh for some unknown (as yet) reason the ebook preview chapter is not working on the site but the paperback preview chapter is.
. I wish you much success mate, I am in the process of (trying) to format something of my own for publishing on LuLu, 
You must be a fucking genius 