With the reboot of the trilogy, it was time to give the series logo a makeover. I've never been able to find a font I really, truly liked for this logo, so I ended up just drawing an alphabet of my own letters. It will do for a while.
Warning: rant ahead!
Oh. My. GOSH. Never have I EVER had as much trouble getting a book into print as I have with this one! And this is self-publishing! I just blew four hours of this evening fighting with the formatting of both the interior and the cover for Wings of Fate in order to get it to be acceptable for print. And even then, I have a feeling it's going to get kicked back because of the dopey interior maps that can't seen to figure out that they're supposed to be 200+ DPI. Tomorrow is D-Day, so I'm really, really hoping and praying that any rejections found in the files are quick and simple fixes. I just about croaked when the site through which I'd like to publish came back and said I had to add a .75 inch gutter to the manuscript!
What's the gutter? Oh. It's the section of pages inside your book that you can't really pull open enough to see because the book is too thick. And weighing in around 650 pages total, this one is a whopper! I'm a little scared to see what happens with Path of a Hero and Eternity's Edge after I have completed the revision process for those two.
So what with bouncing back and forth between my two challenged laptops, the internet usage on my phone nearly running dry for the month, health recovery and plenty of issues with various software, I have had it for today. I have been so bent on getting this book revised and back into print that all of my Christmas activities for today got thrown in the garbage. It wouldn't be so bad if I knew this book was going to end up netting me a large sum of income, but honestly, I'll be thrilled if I even get more than $5 in royalties. No, I'm serious. I don't write my stories for mulah. That would be nice, but my main drive has always been to have stories that I can sit down and enjoy and not worry about something inappropriate appearing partway through. Even with self-published authors, making a decent chunk of change on your work is pretty much like winning the lottery. Tens of thousands, dare I say hundreds of thousands of authors probably don't make more than a few bucks on their work, and I'm willing to bet that most of that comes from family and close friends.
Okay, my laptop is starting to burn my hand. I'm off to skulk around the kitchen and watch Star Trek. See you tomorrow.
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