new book

I just finished a tenth collection of short stories, and I want to gripe about the process a little before it's either approved or rejected on kindle and paperback. Most likely they will simply fix the few things that went wrong and send it down the line, and I'll have two books tomorrow, one kindle, one paperback.

In the end there were times that I didn't know how to fix the formatting problem that their machinery set up, so I simply approved it I figured they would fix those formatting glitches probably having seen such things before and knowing that I really want title page information centered within the title page. I had no idea why it wasn't, and no clue about how to go about fixing it.

Some things like this reflect my dwindling patience. It has been after all about five moonths since my last book, way too long for me, and this has made my marketing kind of stale and I've lost my patience with that too. Because I've lost my patience I let a few things go that I shouldn't have. My covers are not quite perfect. My table of contents does not have the page number for each story, and on the kindle version it's poorly formatted. They will either fix this or not. In kindle they can link the chapters (stories) in the T of C to the stories in the main book, and they'll probably do that, so page numbers there are superfluous anyway. In paperback I end up submitting a pdf and there's where I should probably have page numbers in my T of C.

I get all wound up in the production and thus become somewhat useless in the house where I'm totally distracted and don't even notice whether people are home or not. It's good, though, that I broke the ice on my inability to produce - sure, for several months I was preoccupied with moving - but still I was beginning to feel stale myself and I needed to just see something of mine out on the market. I will work on those covers, I promise. I think you will see a bath of publicity here pretty soon, all sites, all places, all over. It'll be "all guns firing" as I like to say, for a little while, until I figure out what to finish next.