coloring book...

[Chris M. Thomasson]

Hello everybody. Well, I just managed to publish my first book called
“Fractal Life 247 Coloring Book”. A coloring book of all things! Lol.
:^) Well, it's 99 pages of some of my algorithms that I managed to
render in a way that are able to be colored by others. Mostly vector
fields, escape time fractals, some triangle and circle work, ect... I
actually coded up a C++ program that generates the book. So, its rather
interesting. It was a pain in the you know where to get the margins,
trim and full bleed factors right, but it finally passed verification. I
set the price at 7.42$. I was thinking about 11.42$ but chose the
previous prime from 11 at 7. Then, after I submitted it, I noticed that
7.42$ is 247 in “Fractal Life 247” in reverse! Strange. 742 is a fun
number! Well, is the price okay? Too expensive? This is my first book
and setting the price is harder for me than creating a new algorithm.
Very strange indeed. Oh well.

Any thoughts?

Thanks everybody. :^)

Here is a link, it just went live. Can you get to it on your end?

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D3WHP7RZ?ref_=pe_93986420_774957520

[Bonita Montero]

Post by Chris M. Thomasson
Hello everybody. Well, I just managed to publish my first book called
“Fractal Life 247 Coloring Book”. A coloring book of all things! Lol.
:^) Well, it's 99 pages of some of my algorithms that I managed to
render in a way that are able to be colored by others. Mostly vector
fields, escape time fractals, some triangle and circle work, ect... I
actually coded up a C++ program that generates the book. So, its rather
interesting. It was a pain in the you know where to get the margins,
trim and full bleed factors right, but it finally passed verification. I
set the price at 7.42$. I was thinking about 11.42$ but chose the
previous prime from 11 at 7. Then, after I submitted it, I noticed that
7.42$ is 247 in “Fractal Life 247” in reverse! Strange. 742 is a fun
number! Well, is the price okay? Too expensive? This is my first book
and setting the price is harder for me than creating a new algorithm.
Very strange indeed. Oh well.
Any thoughts?
Thanks everybody. :^)
Here is a link, it just went live. Can you get to it on your end?
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D3WHP7RZ?ref_=pe_93986420_774957520

The first offer text on Amazon that smells like nerd. ;-)
I'd buy it if there would be an e-book offer also.

[Chris M. Thomasson]

Post by Bonita Montero

Post by Chris M. Thomasson
Hello everybody. Well, I just managed to publish my first book called
“Fractal Life 247 Coloring Book”. A coloring book of all things! Lol.
:^) Well, it's 99 pages of some of my algorithms that I managed to
render in a way that are able to be colored by others. Mostly vector
fields, escape time fractals, some triangle and circle work, ect... I
actually coded up a C++ program that generates the book. So, its
rather interesting. It was a pain in the you know where to get the
margins, trim and full bleed factors right, but it finally passed
verification. I set the price at 7.42$. I was thinking about 11.42$
but chose the previous prime from 11 at 7. Then, after I submitted it,
I noticed that 7.42$ is 247 in “Fractal Life 247” in reverse! Strange.
742 is a fun number! Well, is the price okay? Too expensive? This is
my first book and setting the price is harder for me than creating a
new algorithm. Very strange indeed. Oh well.
Any thoughts?
Thanks everybody. :^)
Here is a link, it just went live. Can you get to it on your end?
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D3WHP7RZ?ref_=pe_93986420_774957520

The first offer text on Amazon that smells like nerd. ;-)

Big time nerd... lol. :^D

Post by Bonita Montero
I'd buy it if there would be an e-book offer also.

I was thinking of doing that... Hummm... Coloring an e-book is a lot
different than coloring it by hand on the actual paper... Humm...

Some of the pages are much harder to color than others.

[jak]

Post by Chris M. Thomasson
Some of the pages are much harder to color than others.

yes, the strumpy ones :^D

[Chris M. Thomasson]

Post by jak

Post by Chris M. Thomasson
Some of the pages are much harder to color than others.

yes, the strumpy ones :^D

;^D Here is part of a page:

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This is one of the harder ones...

[Chris M. Thomasson]

Post by Chris M. Thomasson
Hello everybody. Well, I just managed to publish my first book called
“Fractal Life 247 Coloring Book”. A coloring book of all things!

[...]

I updated the price to 9.99$ because too many people told me that 7.42$
for a 99 page coloring book was too cheap for my work. I can take up to
72 hours to reflect the change.

[FromTheRafters]

Post by Chris M. Thomasson
Hello everybody. Well, I just managed to publish my first book called
“Fractal Life 247 Coloring Book”. A coloring book of all things!

[...]
I updated the price to 9.99$ because too many people told me that 7.42$ for a
99 page coloring book was too cheap for my work. I can take up to 72 hours to
reflect the change.

It says $9.99 now.

[Ross Finlayson]

Post by FromTheRafters

Post by Chris M. Thomasson

Post by Chris M. Thomasson
Hello everybody. Well, I just managed to publish my first book called
“Fractal Life 247 Coloring Book”. A coloring book of all things!

[...]
I updated the price to 9.99$ because too many people told me that
7.42$ for a 99 page coloring book was too cheap for my work. I can
take up to 72 hours to reflect the change.

It says $9.99 now.

It used to be you could go through smile-dot at amazon and
then a portion of the proceeds of what would have been the
affiliate or what was called then the associates would get
their commissions for bringing traffic to the market, when
once upon a time, you could make your own web-pages with
links to things and via an associates account, which is
not called that anymore because all the warehouse bees now
are called associates, anyways the affiliate platform is
part of what's called traffic platform, where, 100% of all
traffic to that web-site goes through what's called traffic
platform.

So anyways, at some point it was all sort of tagged over
to, "free search", because what had been reasonable sorts
of commissions like 3 or 6 percent, now have all gone bye-bye.

Anyways that all was written in C/C++ on the backend,
and a giant stack called Perl/Mason on the front-end,
then that it very largely went to Java at some point,
then with regards to modern things like Go, JavaScript,
or the various. I wouldn't know, not having been around
for a long time.

Traffic platform then was like, "100% of traffic goes
through traffic platform", while then something like
category expansion is stores and international expansion
is countries, at that place.

If you like coloring books, you might enjoy
color-by-numbers and connect-the-dots.

[Ross Finlayson]

Post by Ross Finlayson

Post by FromTheRafters

Post by Chris M. Thomasson

Post by Chris M. Thomasson
Hello everybody. Well, I just managed to publish my first book called
“Fractal Life 247 Coloring Book”. A coloring book of all things!

[...]
I updated the price to 9.99$ because too many people told me that
7.42$ for a 99 page coloring book was too cheap for my work. I can
take up to 72 hours to reflect the change.

It says $9.99 now.

It used to be you could go through smile-dot at amazon and
then a portion of the proceeds of what would have been the
affiliate or what was called then the associates would get
their commissions for bringing traffic to the market, when
once upon a time, you could make your own web-pages with
links to things and via an associates account, which is
not called that anymore because all the warehouse bees now
are called associates, anyways the affiliate platform is
part of what's called traffic platform, where, 100% of all
traffic to that web-site goes through what's called traffic
platform.
So anyways, at some point it was all sort of tagged over
to, "free search", because what had been reasonable sorts
of commissions like 3 or 6 percent, now have all gone bye-bye.
Anyways that all was written in C/C++ on the backend,
and a giant stack called Perl/Mason on the front-end,
then that it very largely went to Java at some point,
then with regards to modern things like Go, JavaScript,
or the various. I wouldn't know, not having been around
for a long time.
Traffic platform then was like, "100% of traffic goes
through traffic platform", while then something like
category expansion is stores and international expansion
is countries, at that place.
If you like coloring books, you might enjoy
color-by-numbers and connect-the-dots.

You know how it is, when you're at a place
you want to know the source code, to
give an idea "where the food comes from",
knowing the food, inspecting the food,
for consuming and digesting the food.

It's like something like Windows, if you
leave out WMI and the Apps, and, leave
out the mess of device drivers, and just
read Windows 7, within a day or so, one
can plain at least present to the eyeballs
each of the lines of each of the files of
each of the projects of what in that case
was called a "razzle/dazzle C/C++/batch-build".

A synopsis, ....


Of course there's much to be said for "standards",
as with regards to "common dependencies",
of common facilities, in a world of DB FS MQ WS,
with regards to flat-files and the main-frame,
the naming,
vimming the dot-files in a usually available environment.

And running the shell.


Spinning the hamster-wheels, watt-for-watt.

[Chris M. Thomasson]

On 5/11/2024 8:28 AM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
[...]

Post by Ross Finlayson
You know how it is, when you're at a place
you want to know the source code, to
give an idea "where the food comes from",
knowing the food, inspecting the food,
for consuming and digesting the food.

[...]

Fwiw, here is a little glimpse at some of my code:

https://i.ibb.co/GMy2h0j/image.png

I am creating a companion book that will show some of my algorithms and
how to implement them in C++.

[Chris M. Thomasson]

Post by FromTheRafters

Post by Chris M. Thomasson

Post by Chris M. Thomasson
Hello everybody. Well, I just managed to publish my first book called
“Fractal Life 247 Coloring Book”. A coloring book of all things!

[...]
I updated the price to 9.99$ because too many people told me that
7.42$ for a 99 page coloring book was too cheap for my work. I can
take up to 72 hours to reflect the change.

It says $9.99 now.

I updated the price because too many people told me that 7.42$ is too
cheap for my work. The consensus was 9.99$ is basically, okay. I am
creating a companion book that shows some of my algorithms and how to
implement them in pure C++.

[Chris M. Thomasson]

Post by Chris M. Thomasson
Hello everybody. Well, I just managed to publish my first book called

[...]

Post by Chris M. Thomasson
Here is a link, it just went live. Can you get to it on your end?
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D3WHP7RZ?ref_=pe_93986420_774957520

Here is part of a page:

https://i.ibb.co/NFNxJCr/image.png

It's one of the harder ones.

[Chris M. Thomasson]

Post by Chris M. Thomasson
Hello everybody. Well, I just managed to publish my first book called
“Fractal Life 247 Coloring Book”. A coloring book of all things! Lol.

[...]

I am creating a companion book that shows some of my algorithms and how
to implement them in C++. It's in outline stage right now.

(a screenshot of my project)
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