Your Input Is Requested

After much conversation, careswen and I have decided we are going to collect some of the short stories I've had published in various magazines into a self-published anthology. I talked to several traditional publishers about this, but the truth is, collections don't sell very well, even for fairly established writers. So we are going to do this ourselves. Of the over thirty pieces I've sold and published in the last three years, about two dozen of them have had the rights revert back to me.

The idea here is to put out something professional that I can give to family, and maybe take to cons to sell to people at readings. My fiction is scattered all over the place and most of my family members do not have access to magazines published in Australia, or a real good working knowledge of how to use the internet.

My question for you, O Flist, is this:

What size book, trade paperback (6 X 9) or standard pocket paperback (4.25 X 6.875), do you prefer and why? You're input will be greatly appreciated and will enter you in a random drawing to win a free copy of the collection when we publish it.

Help me, flist. You're my only hope...

Your Input Is Requested

After much conversation, careswen and I have decided we are going to collect some of the short stories I've had published in various magazines into a self-published anthology. I talked to several traditional publishers about this, but the truth is, collections don't sell very well, even for fairly established writers. So we are going to do this ourselves. Of the over thirty pieces I've sold and published in the last three years, about two dozen of them have had the rights revert back to me.

The idea here is to put out something professional that I can give to family, and maybe take to cons to sell to people at readings. My fiction is scattered all over the place and most of my family members do not have access to magazines published in Australia, or a real good working knowledge of how to use the internet.

My question for you, O Flist, is this:

What size book, trade paperback (6 X 9) or standard pocket paperback (4.25 X 6.875), do you prefer and why? You're input will be greatly appreciated and will enter you in a random drawing to win a free copy of the collection when we publish it.

Help me, flist. You're my only hope...