Re-Uses for Old Books, Take 3

Turn them into an avant guarde stool or chair.

More info can be found here:

http://www.bookofjoe.com/2008/02/book-or-magazin.html

Re-Uses for Old Books, Take 2

The other day I was at a friend's house, sharing supper with her and her family. She had a large bread tray coming out of the oven, and no place to set the tray because her hot pads were already in use.

I grabbed a couple of hardbacks from the living room coffee table, flipped the books upside-down to protect the front covers, and laid them side-by-side on the dinette.

Bingo! Instant hot pads! (Just be sure the books are of equal thickness.)

Re-Uses for Old Books

Use them as drink mats!

If it's a paperback book you don't care to read again, but really like the cover, strip the cover from the book and get it laminated (teacher supply stores always have a laminator on site.)

Voila! And they stack/store so neatly, too!

For the Love of Writing - An Author's Dilemma

I guess you could say the blog today is directed mostly to other authors.

I have a book that was out with another publisher for nearly a year. It was sold on their website, and on Fictionwise for about 8 months. All in all, I was told I had sold a total of 46 copies of it (although on FW I had 36 reviews for it before it was pulled.)

It's a perfectly good novel. It's a fantasy romance that reads like a medieval, but takes place on an alternate world, and runs around 88,000 words. But, like I said, it's been "exposed" for a year already.

Should I try submitting it to another publisher? Or should I self-publish it and put it up on my website?

Any suggestions? I would dearly love some insight.

Thanks!