It’s live! No wait – it’s early! No wait – it’s in review! Indie Publishing fun facts

So here’s a fun factoid about working with independent publishers like Amazon and Createspace:

It’s very difficult to plan an exact release date unless you set up the Kindle version as pre-order.

The book files have to go through a review process that can take up to 72 hours.

If you submit the file 3 days before the release date, you might have your book go live earlier than you promoted and planned on.

If you submit the file the day before, since they’ve been so fast in the past, you might end up where I am right now: stalking your email waiting for that notice it’s been published and praying it happens today.

So folks, we are not-so-patiently waiting for my book, Flying Broomsticks and Buns, to get through the review process! Hopefully it will today.

Of course, moments after I hit submit, I’ve found a couple errors. This was written pretty fast and I expect an error here or there. My last book went through over 20 read throughs as well as an ARC review group and I just found an error in the prologue. It happens. Of course, I wish it didn’t but doing this all by myself (except for my helpful reviewers), I’ll take a few minor typos. Major publications have them. It just supports that good old saying, “Nobody’s perfect.”