Minerva Wakes Hardcover Delay

Today was going to be my Get The Minerva Wakes Hardcover Done day.

But I work exclusively on a Mac.

And in indie publishing, POD publishers give no love to the Mac.

I did a gorgeous job of formatting the book.

All chapters on right-hand pages.
No headers or page numbers on chapter pages.
Nothing on blank left-hand pages opposite new chapters.
Good fonts

Went to embed the fonts into a PDF. Guess what Mac doesn’t do?

Exported to Word, uploaded to my POD publisher.

My two fonts (Garamond and Helvetica) became Times New Roman.
Multiple extra pages appeared at each point where I had a section break.
Headers and page numbers appeared on both chapter pages and blank facing pages.

I have spent an entire workday trying to work around this, and I am in the mood now to punch penguins and snarl at kittens.

So today I accomplished…

Nothing.

I hate days like this.