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Leaping Lulu

February 28, 2008 (Raleigh, NC) — 24 hours. 1,440 minutes. 86,400 seconds. How will you spend your extra day this leap year?

With Lulu.com’s easy-to-use print on demand process, you can make the jump from writer to author this Leap Day. With over one million members and 15,000 new registrations each week, you can join a growing group of self-published authors who have complete control over their digital content.

Follow in the footsteps of one Lulu user, Lisa Oliver, who published her 66-page guide Beat Procrastination: How to Write and Publish a Book in Just 8 Hours (http://www.lulu.com/content/320682) to encourage others to overcome daily distractions to writing. Lulu.com’s digital marketplace offers a wealth of other sources to help jump-start aspiring authors including U-Publish (http://www.lulu.com/content/1391892), a manual written by self-publishing experts Dan Poynter and Danny Snow.

Take an extra leap and add your newly published work to Lulu.com’s premier digital marketplace to receive 80 percent of the profit from orders of your creation.

Still looking for ways to use your extra time? Here are a couple of tips to maximize your extra 24 hours this Leap Day.

• Organize those photos that you’ve been saving for a rainy day, and create a Lulu Studio™ photo book from a variety of themes and color schemes to choose from. Create an album of holiday photos or vacation snapshots and publish your memories in a Leap Year Yearbook.
• Make a calendar to stay on track for 2008. With Lulu.com’s calendar creation tool, you can select any start and end date. To add a personal touch, customize your new schedule with photos of family and friends.

Take advantage of this extra opportunity to become a self-published author today.

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About Lulu (www.lulu.com): Lulu.com is the premier marketplace for digital content on the Internet, with over 320,000 recently published titles, and more than 5,000 new titles added each week, created by people in 80 different countries. With just over one million registered members, Lulu is changing the world of publishing by enabling the creators to publish their work themselves with complete editorial and copyright control. With storefronts provided and other marketing support, Lulu creators are fully empowered to profit from their work.