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Vanity Publishing

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Is it called vanity publishing? Maybe it's called vanity publishing.

I don't have anything in particular I want just now, but it would be nice to be able to own a copy of my writing or drawings. I just want to send the format to some company, and they'll put it in a pretty book and mail it to me. Just one copy, just for me, and then I want them to delete the files and not think about it anymore.

I know you can do that. A student in one of my classes brought one her parents did for her for show-and-tell a lot of years ago, and I own a copy of some of my drawings coupled with a short story the person who gave me the book wrote.

I just don't know how.

I've looked for one, and I can't find something meant for just making one book. Unfortunately I can no longer ask the person who gave me the one I have.

Does anyone know where to go for this?
 
I came to comment on how terrible the self-publishing racket is, but in your case - publishing just one book - there are good alternatives. Lulu is probably the most well-known, and I've heard good things about CreateSpace too. There are some kiddie-type options, mostly for parents that want their ~baby~'s junk all shined up, like this and this. Luck!
 
Perhaps in addition to looking at those links, you could look at the book that you already have; is there a publisher's name somewhere on it? If so you could look them up too.
 
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