Look what came in the mail!

Ta-daaaaah~~~!

I took it into my hands and cradled it gently to my bosom, and there was peace and all was right with the world.


Okay, well, not quite. This is only the proof, and I could tell right away that we needed to make a few changes to the cover. It's beautiful, oh yes, but certainly not perfect. So, today I went into Photoshop and tweaked everything that needed to be tweaked, and now it oughta be better.

UNFORTUNATELY, a bigger problem was the interior. Victoria and I decided that the print was just too big, and this isn't something that's really perceptible on the screen. So, that means I had to shrink the font size and go through the whole manuscript, page by page, reformatting everything. It took a few hours, but because we reduced the amount of pages to the book, I was able to drop the price by two whole dollars.

I didn't like the original price to begin with. For a paperback, it was kind of expensive, but thus is the cost of print-on-demand. Now, however, it feels much more comfortable, and to think that only two dollars made that difference.

However, this means that we're going to have to proof the book a second time, which means waiting another week. UGH. But if we receive the next proof within the same time frame as the previous, and if that proof checks out okay, then we'll probably have the paperback available by next weekend!

Aside from that, we've started contacting book review bloggers, and, man, it's just as nerve-wracking as when I had to query agents. Seriously. But, it's like I read from all kinds of self-pub articles before: self-publishing is a marathon, not a race.

I was always really bad at marathons.

Stats on sales for the first month soon!