Frustrations

I really love being an Indie-writer. I have complete control of my writing, my means of production and how I market my books. It has been the steepest learning curve of my life and one of the most fascinating.

It is not without its frustrations. This morning I have spent an hour trying to get the font on my Twitter account back to an easily readable size. I failed at this, sent a help message and then, fatally, decided that the answer might lie in changing my background image.

Foolish Martin.

The image of ‘Outcasts’ swamped the page.

 

 

 

So I reloaded the old image of ‘The Lost King: Resistance.’ It looked peculiar, with great gaps between the tiles. Much scratching of head. Then I saw that the picture I was using had a white strip around it which had caused the gaps. No problem, I thought, I’ll find the proper cover.

Horror of horrors I could not find the old cover on my new computer, on my three backup sticks or on Dropbox. It must be languishing on my old dead computer.

I cursed myself for a while. Then I  had a brainwave. A quick visit to this blog and I was able to save the cover image on the blog onto my desktop and there transfer it to Twitter. Aren’t computers wonderful!

But then again, my lateral thinking was pretty hot for 7.00 am.