Here’s the good news:
(The cover’s less pinkish than it looks there. Artifact of the lighting. The color balance is about where I wanted it.)
Here’s the bad news:
That was supposed to be in all-caps, and somehow not only did I fail to hit the Caps Lock key while typing it, I failed to notice the fucking mistake until it was in my hands. And while my wife and a couple of helpful Twitter folks claimed it didn’t look bad, I cannot abide this font in lower-case, particularly that “e”. So it had to be fixed. Also fixed, unnecessarily: adding some space to the front of each chapter and switching the cover from matte to glossy at my wife’s suggestion.
Not altered: the interior font, on account of the number of issues I thought it could introduce. I’m told sans-serif fonts are never used inside books. Be prepared to embrace diversity on that particular point.
Oddly, something about those two changes altered the minimum price– I think I may have gone over an invisible page count threshold when I added the space to the chapters. The print cost will be $12.95, which I think is entirely reasonable for a book of this quality. (The print quality, I mean. The quality of the words is up to you guys.)
It’s back in review, but I’m going to skip the proof stage at this point– there’s nothing changed that should cause additional problems– so being available by Friday is still within reach. I will, most obviously, be letting you know. 🙂
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What about the ‘h’ though? I mean, isn’t that in lower case as well? hides
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The H doesn’t bother me as much as the E. Every time I look at that E I feel like there’s a blob of ink there by accident. Fixed now, though.
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YAY!
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That’s got to be an irritating thing to happen. Most interesting thing I’ve seen in an actual published book is the chapter header saying “chaper”
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It was gonna be something. I’m just glad it was something I caught immediately and could easily fix. 🙂
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Well, I see you now have it available in print, obviously with that fixed?
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Yep. 🙂
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I feel for you man! That would burn my soul.
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Oof the sans serif font on the interior would drive me nuts to read for a whole book. Then again, I also refuse to proofread my friends’ 2-page essays unless they’re in Times New Roman so I’m unusually picky.
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I promise future books will be properly serifed, and the ebook version lets you choose your own font. 🙂
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Something always gets through. No matter how many sets of eyes check it over, something always gets through.
The OCD part of doesn’t want to accept that fact of life, still. Go through it enough, though, and you’ll realize most readers never even notice the things that drive us crazy. For example:
https://wesleymorrison.wordpress.com/2013/06/21/a-married-conversation-about-page-layout-and-design-2/
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Hmm… I’m afraid I can’t open my first book because of stuff like that. Now you know all this, think how much better the next one will be!
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