Self publishing is not for the faint of heart.
That, and the fact that I am typically white knuckling it into any deadline (I tell myself I work better that way,) makes for a hell of a combination the past couple days.
I haven’t even yet made an official announcement about the release date because I’ve been too busy trying to get everything done in order to beat the deadline of a lock-in date five days before release date.
“Make Official release date announcements” was on tonight’s to do list after final uploads on all publishing platforms. (Which just means Amazon for individuals to buy from, and Ingram Spark for stores to buy from.) But in my haste to get this done before tonight’s early evening deadline, I hit SAVE just a bit too soon. And now I can’t undo that. That either means when the book comes out on Amazon on November 25 (Look at that! There’s an official announcement!) there might, possibly, be four or five completely unnecessary and badly placed blank pages. And it’s not even the fun kind of blanks you might suspect with a book like this.
Now my book slides into a 72 hour review process. There are two possibilities here.
One option is that they notice that the file has more pages than it says it has, and they come back to me and tell me I have to fix this right away. If they do that, I have the proper file ready to go right away.
The other option is that it goes to press and it’s “for sale” with blank pages in the middle randomly. Ha.
I refuse to stress about this. I have already stressed enough about the squirrel who committed suicide in a transformer yesterday and took out my Internet and my power for four hours. I have already stressed about the fact that my Internet randomly went down today for no apparent reason (I mean, we’re not even in Mercury retrograde are we?) and when it came back it was too sketchy for uploads. That’s probably why I jumped the gun on that save button when it finally took an upload.
The good news is that if you happen to be one of the lucky ones to buy it on the first day or two and you get the version of the book with useless blank pages, you may just end up with a collectible on your hands.
As soon as possible I will upload the proper files and those extra pages will disappear.
(See! I have a plan!)
That’s why I said in the title, that everything that could possibly go wrong might have possibly gone wrong.
Who can tell?
And doesn’t that just sound like the whole world these days…
Keep breathing everybody.
Keep focusing on making your own little corner of the world the best it can be
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