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Large print edition is up!

Here! Whoot-whoot!

I’ll probably have to ask Amazon to link it to the other editions, but that should be straightforward enough.

Progress report

The large-print proof came back—it’s not bad, but I found some errors & will do a second proof.

The main annoying aspect is that GIMP, which I used to do the cover, doesn’t give you an accurate sense of type size. According to GIMP, I’m using 40, 60, or 80 point type for the cover—but it’s all smaller than the 18-point type in the interior. I don’t actually think there’s enough room on the cover to do my jacket copy in 18-point type, but I’ll definitely make it bigger than it is now.

Whoo!

The large-print edition is done! Mostly! I think! I ordered the proof, anyway—we’ll see how everything looks in the finished product.

Hey, I now have some time to do things that aren’t indexing! It’s amazing!

Paperback's up!

Right here! Woooooo!

Yeah, baby!

I have uploaded the trade paperback to Amazon and approved it for sale! It will hopefully go up tomorrow or the next day! Whoo!

DONE!

Yes, I indexed Part 4 today, and I am officially OUT of Index Hell!

Tomorrow I’ll look over the trade paperback changes—hopefully I’ll be able to approve it for sale!

Progress report

Part 3 is done! Whoo! Yeah, that’s a MUCH smaller chapter.

Progress report

Part 2 is done! Whew, this has been some heavy sledding. I did a bit of Part 3, and then I figured that since I am about two-thirds of the way through it, I really should input the page numbers into the large-print index layout. So I did that!

It’s been a solid week since I started this index—ugh. It’s certainly helping the trade paperback edition as well, but it is a little frustrating to know that I can’t put either print edition up until I finish eating this elephant. I guess it’s better to do the work now than to mail off review copies and get told the index sucks ass….

Progress report

I am very close to being done with Part 2—I wanted to push though, but my back said No.

Progress report

Kind of an ugh day—the pollen count is…where it is. I’m partially through Part 2, which is slow going because 1. Part 2 is HUGE, and 2. there are definitely a lot more errors in it. The good news is that transferring things from a trade paperback index to a large-print index is definitely a really good way to proofread—I’m catching a lot of typos, or places where the trade paperback index is off by a page. The bad news is that of course finding and fixing those errors takes a lot of time.

Then on top of everything, the copy editor contacted me to tell me he couldn’t find the Tribulations layout. Turns out that I had deleted the PDF, so I had to convert the chapters and put them together again. That also might be a good thing in the long run, since the way I had done the PDF before made it harder to work with. (I honestly don’t really understand the different flavors of PDFs, I’ve just realized that if you want to do this with a PDF, you should make it this was in Scribus, but if you want to do that, you should make it that way.)