The Book is Done!
20 Sep
Remember that Writing A Book In Two Weeks Experiment I did?
Well I got the first copies of the physical book from the printers! Check it out!
Hahahahaha….I couldn’t stop laughing that this book actually exists :-)
The front cover is actually a subtle ode to my favorite copywriter: Gary Halbert….you can see his book was clearly the inspiration *COUGH*exact copy*COUGH* for my book:
The image I used on the cover was a cheeky nod to the show Family Guy….where Brian Griffin’s novel has this cheesy oil painting of him looking very profound:
You can see the similarities here:
I printed out 3 copies of the book through Lulu.com just to see how the formatting would come out, and it came out better than expected!
There ARE a bunch of very small changes I want to make (like page breaks and spelling errors). That’s to be expected since this was written in two weeks.
If you really want this you can buy it here…
…..and I will laugh my ASS off if someone actually buys it! I priced it at $14.92…
….because that’s when “Columbus sailed the ocean blue” :-)
But this kind of concluded my totally-useless-goal of “Having a book with my name and picture on it”!
CHECK!
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UPDATE 9-22-2011
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Someone actually bought the book! That means my book sold ONE more copy that Brian Griffin’s novel :-)
Hey Nev!
Well first I’d like to congratulate you on your book being done! Second I’d like to know if you’d be willing to give a short presentation to a group about college kids (UT students of course) about the ways you’ve made money in college. I’m an RA and one of the programs has to be about money and finance. Well I look forward to hearing from you and hopefully we can work something out.
Thanks,
Kyle
Hmmm…that actually sounds interesting.
A lot of the things I did were either a bit technical (website related) or actually getting off my ass and doing some sort of manual service (ex: power washing homes).
If you want, get in touch and I can let you borrow one of the books to see if it’s the right kind of stuff to speak to your students about! (I live Downtown not far from campus)!
-Nev
Awesome! I think they’ll really like learning how to make money without having a job, if you want to meet up just name the time and place and I’d be willing to venture downtown sometime to meet you. Hope to hear from you soon.
Thanks,
Kyle
Is a Kindle release planned? ;-)
It is now! I’ve got it on my to-do list for Thursday :-)
You should donate one of those initial printing copies to the Austin Public Library.
lol! I should…..I did donate a computer to them before….at least this might inspire some of the kids to get off their asses and make some $$!
http://www.nevblog.com/the-independence-day-computer-please-donate-update-all-1075-raised/
Nev you’re funny as fook man!!
Wow a book, I would buy it. But I’m too cheap to pay for anything….
Very clever book and photos. Thank you for sharing your post.
Aaron Varuolo Management Consultant
great blog! i love all the tips and advice .thanks alot.
Oh my! I stumbled on your blog and have started reading it and I LOVE IT!!! This is just so amazing and I love that you wrote a book in 2 weeks! Definitely going to keep coming back because each post is awesome.
This has to be the most interesting and inspiring blog I’ve read for a long while. It just shows what a winner a slightly different approach can be.