Self-pub Nikki 7

27sep11

After asking CreateSpace on the previous weekend what's up with my "Dome Child" book, since I hadn't heard anything from them in a while, I got the reply that the interior changes are "with the vendor" and I'd get a reply in the next few business days. I am not quite sure what that means. Sounds to me like they were outsourcing the interior design.

I also asked for a jpg of the cover page only (without the spine and back-cover attached) for promotional purposes (putting it on my website etc.pp) I received that one promptly and am wondering now when to put it on the net.

On the 27th then, I received the next version of my interior and something funny happened. The two misses from last time were corrected, but a miss from the first round of corrections was now corrected for a second time and one sentence was suddenly doubled… I wonder where that comes from.

I took the opportunity to ask for two more mini changes, a spell miss I discovered and a formatting miss. So it's now three tiny mistakes to be corrected and I am wondering how long that will take again. In my opinion that is a job of 5 minutes (as was the correction of the two misses in the second round). The two misses of the second round took some 8 working days to correct. I only hope that the new three tiny misses won't again take another 8 working days…….

The process is a bit nerve-wrecking at the moment and I wonder why it takes so long.

08oct11,

Unfortunately it took again about a work week to correct three tiny mistakes. I finally for the interior back on the 6th of October (Japan night time = already the 7th for me)

I finally got the chance to look at the stuff on the 8th and didn't find more glitches, meaning, I finally approved the interior and now the ball is back with CreateSpace. I am actually not sure what is going to happen next. In the project list it says "complete setup". Guess they will now combine the cover with the interior and I have to approve that. We'll see.