Imminent Issuing

Dear Reader, mysterious are the workings of Kindle Create indeed. There are ever new surprises awaiting when you’re trying to reopen a document previously prepared. Gremlins, poltergeist, or just deliberately evil coding, who knows, but something is working to mess up the files when you think they’re safe on your harddrive.
Kindle Create is truly a software that keep on giving… grief.
Yes, Dear Reader, you guessed it, I was formatting yesterday. I had already done it once, and was just going to tweak my Kindle file when suddenly Kindle Create decided it couldn’t read its own file format. So I had to start over, this time uploading it to Amazon directly when I was done.
That Amazon, with its high flying ambitions, can’t manage to produce a more userfriendly software to manufacture a product that’s very lucrative for them, would be hysterically funny if it wasn’t so bloody aggravating. It’s not exactly rocket science, is it?
Then I was going to upload my carefully prepared paperback file when I discovered that I accidentally had deleted it in a long overdue harddrive cleaning frenzy.
So all of yesterday was spent creating new files, but finally I got them uploaded to Amazon.
I didn’t have a heart beat for a full 10 minutes (so it felt, anyway) when I also couldn’t find the file for the cover art. After rooting through all the impossible nooks and crannies of my disks, I finally found it where it was supposed to be. I’m not only going blind as a bat, now I think I might actually be a vampire.

All of this, Dear Reader, is my long-winded way of telling you that the paperback and the Kindle of ‘House of Rose’ are in Amazon review and will be live in a few days.

This time, I’ve decided to try Apple Books as well, so looking into that process is how I plan/hope/sacrifice a serving of the gremlins’ favourite snacks, to spend the day.

Hoping that you and your endeavours have a day free of any mischievous imps, please, Dear Reader, wish me luck!