Resource: Lulu

 

Cover art for my literary magazine, Appalachia Anew

 

 

Hi Everyone,

Today I’d like to share a great resource with you, Lulu.  Lulu.com is an online vanity press.  In other words, you can become your own publisher and skip a lot of the hassles and money issues that you would normally have to go through in order to see your product in print.  

Last spring, during my undergrad, I took a course entitled Literary Editing and Publishing.  Our instructor was a well established visiting professor by the name of Dinty Moore.  He is known for his views and writing on academic journals.  He also helps edit the New Ohio Review, which is based at Ohio University.  Another interesting undertaking of his is Brevity.  Brevity is basically an online literary magazine that he runs and edits himself.  If you have time, I would recommend checking it out for some interesting short stories and poetry by various known and unknown authors.

At the end of the course our final project was to create our own literary magazine.  He steered us toward Lulu because it is a simple, easy to use website that allows you to design everything about your magazine from cover art to paper quality and binding to font type.  We gathered poetry and stories from wherever we could around campus (with authors permissions) then uploaded our word document online after we had it formatted correctly (as far as margins, order, etc…).  After uploading all you have to do is order however many copies of your magazine you would like.  A few weeks later and bingo, you have your work in print right in front of you!

I hope that this will become an interesting and helpful resource for all of you, just as it was for me!

-Tyler

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