Working Up

by Dwayne Phillips

My printed book from FastPencil is in hand. It took about three weeks for FastPencil to transform a PDF file to a paperback book. It is 6″x9″ and 155 pages.

My Little Book in Hand

Lessons Learned:

• 10-point font is too small for my eyes
• I chose a creme paper instead of white, I wish I had chosen white

I am happy with the result. These paperbacks (I bought ten copies) are like large business cards.The are easy to carry with me and hand to people I meet.

This is a short book, but that is one of the main points. I wanted to write a short book on Systems Engineering. Most books on Systems Engineering are graduate-level textbooks. They are good, but they are longer than 500 pages, and practicing engineers and scientists don’t have time to read those.

I have a few other short books that I may put into paperback form with FastPencil. Time will tell. I also have a long book that is a collection of 50+ fiction short stories that I wrote a couple of years ago. Time will tell.