Sorry, I'm not the world's best blogger so my blogs are random and infrequent. But now I feel I have something to say.
When publishing my books I use two formats, one being digital and of course the other is paper. Until now I have always used a firm called Creatspace, which is an independent arm of the mighty Amazon. Creatspace off a 'pay as you go' type of service,  print on demand. The author gets royalties but Creatspace get the bulk of any profits from sales. That in itself is fine, but now the prices are rocketing.
My latest book, Animan, is a science fiction V's science fantasy book, a totally new direction for me, as I usually write humour. I duly uploaded my script to Kindle as usual, before tackling the book set up on Creatspace. All went fine, I'm an old hand after publishing seven books, until the pricing section arrived.
One can buy a paperback novel in most shops for around five pounds. That price is reasonable and accepted. However, Creatspace put such a high price on the book that even with my royalty of 0.50p the price of the book was near nine pounds!
I understand everyone needs to make a profit but I'm sure Creatspace will soon be out of business as authors cannot sell their books at the prices set buy Creatspace. Animan ll is in the editing stage but may be published in digital only.
I would like to get a publisher but unless one is a seventeen year old pop star writing an autobiography, or a disgraced politician or a footballer, publishers are not interested. JK Rowlings was turned down by many, many publishers so it happens to us all. One wonders how those publishers who refused her feel now?
So I'm sorry if you prefer the printed paper versions of books, but finance denies my own efforts to get my books in print.
Thank you for reading my moans.