Not The Writing I Expected

I have now updated “The Special Scent” to reflect its appearance on Google Books and Google Play, so there’s a little bit of good news.
What hasn’t been so good has been the significant amount of time writing I have spent today. It will all ultimately end up helping you, the reader, find my books online, but for now the process is quite annoying. I am talking about configuring ONIX metadata that some ebook resellers like to see before they list my books.
ONIX metadata makes all sorts of sense, but it’s pure XML. As they say, XML is like violence, if you’re still having problems, use more until it’s solved. I spent far longer than I really wanted going through the standard and crafting by hand a template ONIX file that will accompany all future releases. This brought back some bad memories of writing lengthy software code by hand, but at least it’s all done now.
My next big problem is trying to work out why Google Play is looking at an odd part of the actual ebook metadata for the content description. If I can’t find why it’s doing so, I’m probably going to have to re-publish to Google, with each book synopsis stuck in the place that Google is looking.
I hope to have both books published to Kobo and the iBookstore by the end of the week, or at least submitted for processing. Then I can devote more time to writing, and the other things I love doing.