It’s Labor Day weekend, and I am already celebrating during my Friday coffee hours. My weekend is going to be full of book work. I realized I am going to have to do some heavy work to get Kringle on Fire put together. I need it published by a week from today so I have copies when I go to the Author Fair on September 30th.
I’ve already processed the text for publication using Atticus, which gives the work visual polish (Vellum does this as well, but is Mac-only.) The part I’m struggling with is the cover. It’s almost like I forgot how to make a cover. One royalty-free photo, a back cover, words (some sidewards) and — it doesn’t fit as an 5×8 cover according to the publishing site KDP (Kindle Direct Publishing). So that’s what I’m going to do tomorrow. If I get far enough ahead this weekend, I will try to do the same for Apocalypse. I have a cover for that, but I think it will fail as well.
I registered the copyrights for both books today. At least I got that done. I don’t know if that’s absolutely necessary, but I copyright my published works with the US Copyright office. I’ve been hearing of people on Kindle plagiarizing others’ works. Having the copyright is going to be a big cease and desist there.
There’s a lot of work with publishing a book that has nothing to do with writing. Traditional publishing entails less work, as one only needs to approve the book cover instead of creating it. One doesn’t have to do the bulk of the publicity, although there are promo tours. The self-publisher does more work on their own, but this is not a bad thing by any means.
I’m going to have a busy weekend, with some of it spent at Starbucks for a change of scenery. It’s part of publishing, and it’s part of what keeps me going. Wish me luck.
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