Buy My Book!

Yesterday was a very exciting day for me, as I received the first copies of my book – The Best of The World of Sherby57: Volume 1.  Yes, it’s a real life book and I wrote it.  It’s a very strange feeling.

Now, admittedly it isn’t a real book because it’s entirely self-published and the only copies that I’m likely to sell are to myself.  But don’t try and rain on my parade, I’m still excited.  The book is, unsurprisingly, a collection of posts from my other blog, The World of Sherby57, and is made up from stuff from its first two years.  Rest assured that I haven’t just copied and pasted from the blog and then published.  There were a frightening number of mistakes that had to be corrected and many of the posts are heavily revised and expanded.  There’s even an expanded version of Fireheart! – the thrilling\weird adventures of the maverick Johnny Fireheart – and the story finally has the conclusion that’s been missing since Chapter 5 was published in November 2007.  The book is 113 pages of sheer Sherby57 goodness.

The book was published through lulu.com, a service that allows you to publish a book for free.  They even give you an ISBN number so you can feel even more like a real author.  Lulu are based in the US but I received my copies just 7 days after ordering them which is pretty impressive.  It’s amazing how a Word document that I knocked together can end up looking so good when it’s turned into a book.  I highly recommend a bit of vanity publishing to any fellow bloggers out there.

Anyway, this is only the first post about The Best of The World of Sherby57: Volume 1, I’m sure that I’m going to bore you to tears with it over the coming weeks.  In the unlikely event that you’d like to buy a copy then you can do so by clicking here.  It costs a very reasonable £8.27.  I don’t know why it’s such a random price, but it is.