I made a book!

If you’ve been following my shameless promo posts on Lib Dem Voice, you will not be in any doubt that over the last few weeks I have typeset a book that we have published through the self publishing website lulu.com. It’s a compilation of work from our talented and beautiful crowd of contributors to Lib Dem Voice.

It took more than one go to get it right, and I will not entirely believe it has actually worked until I have the finished article in my hot little hand. But so far all the indications are that it will go fine, and scores of enthusiastic politicos from the Voice audience will be hotfooting it to Lulu from 7am tomorrow to buy the fruits of my desktop publisher.

One of the most enjoyable parts of making the book was releasing my inner librarian and creating an index. My DTP program – Serif PagePlus – made this relatively simple. Although it sounds like a dry and dusty endeavour, actually there was plenty of scope for humour and in-jokes, as the entry for Nick Clegg shows. I suspect vanishingly few people will get my jokes, but I like them all the same.

The main point of this post is to make available a series of icons for our contributors to use to help promote our book.

If you’d like to use the image at the top of this post, which links directly to the Lulu sales page, here’s the code:

And here are a series of subtler versions you may wish to consider instead.