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Wednesday, March 17, 2010

If i write to Random House...?

I wrote a letter to Random House asking if they would make a disney fairies book out of me and my best friend. I only asked for two copies and its for her birthday. Do you think someone will get my letter and reply or is there no chance on them reading it. I havent sent it yet because im curious to if I should send it at all because i don't think they'd do it for me.
If i write to Random House...?
Hahah, i would do that


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If i write to Random House...?
Well, I hate to burst your bubble, but that would cost a lot more than it would be worth to just make two books. It would require all of the time and labor that goes into making a book that will be distributed in the millions, and to make only two would be a lot of money.





My suggestion would be to make her one yourself. You could draw it or just do it online (printing off coloring page pictures and captioning them is always cute). It might mean more if it were so personal.
Reply:Random House will ignore any such request. You'd be extremely lucky to get a response at all. I would recommend going to Kinko's and have them bind a book for you. It will be much quicker and cheaper.
Reply:You'll be royally ignored. Do not bother. They do not do that sort of thing.
Reply:I'm sorry, but they'll probably just discard your letter, or send you a generic letter thanking you for your request. For one thing, Random House doesn't work on Disney books. Those are done by Disney. If there are any, it's because the book was "licensed." No publishing book will publish a book for the general public as you are requesting.





What you COULD do is try self-publishing, which will allow you the chance to publish a few copies of something. You'd have to do all the work, but you can at least get it done. Be VERY careful, however, with the images you use. You'll have to avoid using Disney images; they are VERY protective of the copyright images of their characters, and you'd be reproducing their art without their permission. Or the cheapest option would be to go to a copy store and have them make the copies for you. If you're thinking of a fairy book, like ones with pop up things and the like, those are VERY expensive to make and complicated to put together (it's called "paper engineering"). If you wanted to try to make your own paper engineering, you can try Robert Sabuda's website. He's a master of that stuff, and has simple directions on how to put some simple pop ups together.





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