Its not a thin, prettily designed book of common grammar mistakes thats marketed to the average writer. (See Eats, Shoots and Leaves. ) Its not a book youll read cover to cover--its interesting to us word geeks to read sections here and there, but mostly youl...

One solution is to take advantage of modern technology and publish your book yourself. So how do you go about publishing a book that you have written? Fortunately, you have several options. With todays powerful desktop publishing tools its not too hard to do a layout all by yourself, print the pages on a laser printer, and take it somewhere like Kinkos to be put in a generic binding. If you want the book to be personalized with the childs name and the names of friends and relatives as well, its possible to do that with word processing software, although you have to be pretty good at using the software.