My posting schedule is all off these days. It’s not likely to get any better with the approaching holidays, either. Ah well, I just try to roll with it.
I’ve had far more frustrations with publishing If This Be Magic & The Traitor and the Spy (henceforth referred to as Magic & Traitor, because I’m too lazy to type out the whole thing every time) than I did with Justice’s Mask. Smashwords didn’t like some of my formatting, both for the cover and the interior. I was able to fix some, but not all, of the supposed problems, and decided the others weren’t worth fussing about.
The headaches with working through Createspace for print and Kindle were mostly due to me not having used it before (I didn’t bother with a print edition for JM), so I won’t mention them here. I worked through them, at any rate. The only current frustration is that the Kindle edition somehow keeps coming up as written by “E Bates” while the print is by “E L Bates” and I can’t put the “L” in the Kindle where it should be! And I’m guessing that’s the reason why they keep showing up as different publications, instead of two different editions of the same book.
I just keep reminding myself that this is one of the major reasons I wanted to try publishing short stories first – to get a feel for how all of this works, to figure out potential problems and address them now, so that when I publish my novel, it’ll go more smoothly.
So I’m trying to roll with all this, too.
And this happened yesterday, which made me tear up and forgive all the (literal and metaphorical) headaches.
Yay for holding your book in your hand! So glad it matched up to the dream. 🙂
I can only imagine what it feels like to hold your own book! I'm so proud of you for continuing to write and stepping out into the deep end and self-publishing! Congratulations!
Sounds like you're gaining some great experience! So cool to hold your book in your hands 🙂
Ooo, who did that cover again? It looks three-dimensional!
Thank you! It's rare that the reality matches up to the dream; I'm so thankful this one did not disappoint.
Thank you, Adrienne! Never would have happened without the encouragement and support from you, Cathy, and Laura.
Thanks! It makes it so much easier to endure frustrations if I look at them as learning tools instead of setbacks.
Kathryn Jonell. Her website is here: http://kathrynjonell.com/ As soon as she mentioned Sarah Rees Brennan's "Unspoken" cover as one of her influencing ideas in an initial email, I knew we were going to get along great 🙂
Oh hurrah!!! They look absolutely awesome! Sooo happy for you.
Thank you! Like I said, it makes me so very excited now to get my novel polished and edited and published. Can't wait!