I've been trying to figure out a good way to get a "hardcopy" of some of the writing I've worked on for some time, and the most convenient, usable service I've found to date is Blurb.
Blurb isn't necessarily the cheapest or the best solution for self-publishing, but they have a good set of tools and previous proofs I've ordered from them have looked nice. What I haven't really been able to figure out was a particularly cost-effective way of archiving stuff in bulk. I'm quite wordy, you see, and that tends to fill quite a few pages.
Probably the main issue is that in previous attempts I've been trying to create a "coffee table" type of book with lots of images and colour, when in fact the long-form nature of my writing is better suited to a more… "normal" book. So I've done an experiment and formatted all the 2016 Cover Game feature articles into one of these more "normal" books, with a splash of colour here and there for interest. It came out at 394 pages, and that was skipping the RPG Maker MV feature, which was very image-heavy and not really appropriate for a text-centric book.
I'm interested to see how this will come out. Blurb take quite a while to print and send out proofs, so I should hopefully have something to share by about the 26th or so. After that, if there's interest, I can put hardcopies and ebook versions up for sale, just in case you want me on your shelf! (If you don't, that's fine, too; I'm mostly doing this so I have a more "permanent" copy of some of the things I've written.)
Anyway, just wanted to share that, and I'll let you know how it comes out when I receive my proof.
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