*whines*

[hedda62]

I have a stinking cold, and I have to drive to Allentown and back later today, and I've seen the digital proof for Time and Fevers and yes, I am going to have to work on the cover more. (I don't think it's entirely my fault that it's misaligned, but one must meet CreateSpace where they are.) Despite my "must do this NOW" urges, I know it's much better to wait until I'm feeling better and no longer in the "oh fuck it, this'll do, let me go bury myself in Elementary season two" state of mind. But I'm looking at my calendar for the next couple of weeks and weeping. Why did I think bringing out a book in the height of spring was a good plan? Oh, because the MacGuffin is tulips and it was so cute to have people reading it when the tulips were blooming. Well no, not if I have no time for marketing until summer, and most of the people I can guarantee will read it are equally busy right now.

*sigh*

On the other hand, it didn't snow two days ago, so that's good. (It did sleet, and drop below freezing, but I think all the flowering things and the seedling plants survived.)

I will be much happier when my head is not a mass of snot. Really.

Comments

[mmegaera]

Every time I upload a cover to CreateSpace, having used their paper choice times number of pages formula, I have to go back and readjust the spine width to the figure on the digital proof. Every. Bloody. Time.

[hedda62]

And I have been downloading their cover templates, and cannot figure out where exactly to put the edges of things so that it'll all end up where it's supposed to go. (I really have to redo the Time for Tea cover at some point, since it is also off, but It Is To Despair.)

[mmegaera]

I've never tried to use their templates. I took an online class on how to create covers from Dean Wesley Smith (worth every penny -- the lady who actually teaches it is a) a really good teacher and b) knows her stuff). But you have to have access to Adobe InDesign.