Took a few days off to educate myself on the “after-edit” stuff...publishing options and book covers and what-not. Found that, much to my chagrin, the image I chose for the cover is all handy-dandy for ebooks, but lacks the pixels per inch for a decent printed copy. Evidently, if I try to use it for the physical book, the cover will look like roadkill floating in tomato soup.
Not that there's anything WRONG with that. Not judging roadkill appreciators. There could be a real lucrative roadkill performance art market that I could tap into. Note to self. Writing down for later investigation.
SOOO, it appears that the cover image will be changing. I'd still like to go with the “spooky crow/bird spooking you out in front of a spooky scary sunset” kind of thing, but of course that will depend on what I can dig up in the creative commons, royalty free, no-pay-for-cool-images places I frequented yesterday. I'm cheap. No...fiscally creative! There's a bunch of great pics on those sites...just gotta figure out what I can format to the appropriate size...6 by 9 inches, specifically...and have it still look eye-poppingly stupentacular. All of those are words, now.
I'm tired, this morning. I got an average amount of sleep, but I'm still tired. Must be a sleep exerciser.
I learned some more about stuff I have to do AROUND the core of the editing stuff I'm already doing. Trying to appear like I have my shit together enough to hit a publish date that I have to figure out. I'm still pretty back-patting that I got the manuscript done in the month I was aiming for...but yeah, if you're self-publishing, know that there's a mountain behind the already-impressive-molehill. But, I hear there's a party at the summit, so on we go.
Back...to....
(snore)
Wha...huh...leave me alone, monster-that's-shaped-like-my-fledgling-career-as-an-author!!!
Oh man...it was just a dream. Or...was it???
Back to work.
Not that there's anything WRONG with that. Not judging roadkill appreciators. There could be a real lucrative roadkill performance art market that I could tap into. Note to self. Writing down for later investigation.
SOOO, it appears that the cover image will be changing. I'd still like to go with the “spooky crow/bird spooking you out in front of a spooky scary sunset” kind of thing, but of course that will depend on what I can dig up in the creative commons, royalty free, no-pay-for-cool-images places I frequented yesterday. I'm cheap. No...fiscally creative! There's a bunch of great pics on those sites...just gotta figure out what I can format to the appropriate size...6 by 9 inches, specifically...and have it still look eye-poppingly stupentacular. All of those are words, now.
I'm tired, this morning. I got an average amount of sleep, but I'm still tired. Must be a sleep exerciser.
I learned some more about stuff I have to do AROUND the core of the editing stuff I'm already doing. Trying to appear like I have my shit together enough to hit a publish date that I have to figure out. I'm still pretty back-patting that I got the manuscript done in the month I was aiming for...but yeah, if you're self-publishing, know that there's a mountain behind the already-impressive-molehill. But, I hear there's a party at the summit, so on we go.
Back...to....
(snore)
Wha...huh...leave me alone, monster-that's-shaped-like-my-fledgling-career-as-an-author!!!
Oh man...it was just a dream. Or...was it???
Back to work.
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