I’ve found another Lovecraft “mash up”. Murray Ewing gives a long and useful account of self-publishing his Alice at R’lyeh, This is a new Carrollian nonsense poem, with illustrations, which imagines a combination of Alice and Lovecraft. Predictably, and as I know myself, embedding the required fonts in a PDF and getting it to print to the required page size was a nightmare of Lovecraftian proportions. But in the end, he writes…

“I could get 100 16-page booklets for a little over £100 […] I went with www.thedigitalprinters.com […] I got the quote, uploaded my PDF, got an email back suggesting a lamination for the covers, okayed that, and then, a week later, I had my box of Alice at R’lyeh booklets. That moment — receiving your actual finished, physical copies, tangy with the scent of fresh ink and peppered with paper-dust — is the first heaven of self-publishing.”

The story of promoting it comes in Part two.