Paperback Woes

Do you see the book spines pictured below? Do you see the immediate problem with them? They’re empty. No author name, no book title, no series name, nothing. Which was NOT what I submitted to Amazon. 

Inspiration

Before the release of The Missing Heir, I ended up taking off a month from writing in a (failed) attempt to do a deep dive into Instragram and understand it better for marketing purposes. This led to me butting up against the deadline much closer than I prefer for getting the paperback books ready for The Missing Heir. And, of course, that was when I ran into a problem I’d never had before. 

The PDF that I submitted to Amazon for the paperback copies had all the spine text that it was supposed to. But the proof copies that I received, as you can see, had nothing. I reached out to the Amazon help desk and was told that it was just a timing issue between when I uploaded my cover and when I ordered the proof copy . . . but then I received another proof copy and there was still nothing on the spine. (Which was slightly panic-inducing by that point.) 

Thankfully, the second time I reached out the held desk was able to diagnose the problem and I got it fixed in time for uploading the paperback to Amazon. This is why I always have to buy proofs of new books, to make sure nothing wonky happens with the cover. 

In far less stress-inducing news, all of the bonus stories for The Missing Heir are now up on my website! 

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