Not Today

It was supposed to be published today. Everything is ready. Truly. Even the pics for the covers.

I got all the stuff together, spent (wasted) the equivalent of a whole work day doing the formatting for the paperback version, uploaded and went on to the cover.

It loaded, stopped, error message. Suddenly, the day turned to disaster. Again.

It happens every time. Don’t look at me like that! It does. Every time the story is ready to publish (or published!) there is some type of disaster that … well, you know … turns it to frustration and temper and a total waste of time. This time? Something in the software is refusing to turn my pics into jpegs.

I found that out after about four hours – four hours! – of solid slogging that wasn’t related to writing, or publishing – of working backwards through the errors and issues.

Long story short – for once – Not On The Cards, due to be released today, will await some form of new software that saves my pics as jpegs.

If – and it’s a very big if – you see the pics here from the ones I created, this is what I plan to use as covers. If they display on this site, all may not be lost. If they don’t, the covers may change – because I have a delete, delete, delete crankiness for the stuff that fails me at the last moment.

So, after the little tanty, here’s the pic for the new novel, which was due out today, but will be here sometime over the next week. Do NOT look behind my back at those crossed fingers!

An update (we’ll see what happens, shall we?)

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Wow! Thanks Jim – you saved my bacon (and the above was ‘fixed’ with GIMP).

 

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See, corrupted. Deep breath. Go away and do something else. Come back after a nice refreshing pot of mint and sage tea – with honey, of course. Garden. With a sledgehammer. Get calm. Come back. It will work out.

IT WILL, or ….

 

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