Print Proofing

The print proof for Finding Daylight landed on my doorstep yesterday evening, and it. is. gorgeous.

But there are a few things wrong with it, so it’s back to editing the files this morning. Nothing is ever perfect on the first try, and as an author I know that way too well.

So, what are we changing? On the back cover, I’m moving the summary text just a smidge to the left and moving the author photo and author blurb so there’s less black space by the barcode. I have my reasons, mainly so that the text doesn’t run too close to the spine.

Within the interior, I’m scooting the header margins down–again just so very slightly, and I’m scooting the footer margin down just as slightly so the text doesn’t shift. I love the outside margins, because they’re just wide enough to allow my thumbs to grip the book without covering any text, so those are perfect (unless you have larger thumbs than me, in which case I apologize in advance). There was also a bit of a spacing issue for one chapter’s headers, and a couple of chapter titles.

I decided to do raised caps for the beginning of chapters…all of a sudden and for no reason at all other than I randomly decided I liked it. So I dropped those in and voila!

Fixed. Done. I converted everything to PDF/X and sent the proof back to its people. After counting to make sure all my page numbers are right (a constant lesson in questioning my sanity, as it turns out) I’m just waiting on the review files to come back so I can scoot this sucker out into the world as a finished print book.

So the print version of Finding Daylight is coming soon! To celebrate, I’ll be running a Goodreads giveaway of five of these beautiful copies. I’ll be back with more details on that. In the meantime, it’s available as an e-book for Kindle and KindleUnlimited. Get your copy here!