Looking Like a Real Book!

Creighton Hill is starting to look like a real book! This is so super exciting. Let me show you another picture.

I just may be a little addicted to the print preview. It's so cool to see it looking like a real book! The print preview isn't quite as cool as CreateSpace's interior reviewer, but it's pretty close. And after working long and hard on Creighton Hill, it's starting to look like a real book! A real book that should be ready in just four short weeks!

It's so neat. I love those fonts, and how they look together, I'd better, after all the time I spent trying to design it just so. I haven't formatted a book since last fall, so doing it again, and doing all this design was fun. And, sorry, Ashley, it's just more exciting to do one's own book, however much you may love your friend's, so I'm a bit more excited about Creighton Hill than I was Becoming Nikki.

Now, there still will definitely be some changes to the interior, as I have some people still proofreading, and others who I asked last minute to send me some things to put in the book (I don't always procrastinate like that, I just didn't make that final decision until last Friday morning), but I think I'm going to go ahead and order my first proof early on this week. See, it took me four proofs to be mostly satisfied with the cover of The Experiment, so I want to be sure I have plenty of time to get the cover right, and the printing of the map in the interior. I'm doing a matte cover for the first time (they added the feature after I did my last book) and I'm doing cream pages instead of stark white, so it'll all be a bit different. And I'm anxious to see how those differences look. Not that I haven't seen those printing choices in friends' books but it's different in your own. Plus, I'm really anxious to hold this book in my hands. I want to be able to hold a tangible book, not my kindle or a manuscript printed on printer paper. But I'll still be able to edit it for awhile (not edit it for Swahili, as autocorrect insisted on texting my friend), so all the changes should get in there. And I'm hoping to have it available for preorder on kindle by next week. That's another new feature I'm super excited about.

And the blog tour is still exciting me. I've written up three guest posts on various interesting topics, two character spotlights on characters whose identity I will not yet divulge, and I received some character interview questions this morning that I'm looking forward to answering. Plus, I know at least one of my reviewers really enjoyed Creighton Hill, and really wanted book two. I love getting that response. :)

Just four weeks to go! A lot will happen in those next four weeks, both in the publishing process and in my personal life, so I'm hanging in for a wild ride.

Alons-y!!