Who Knew Publishing The Paperback Would Be So Hard?

So, you’ve finished the book, published the e-Book. It’s all plain sailing from here. But is it?

No. It isn’t.

Welcome to the hell of creating a wraparound book cover, the annoying dotted-lines, grey fields and red boundaries that never quite fit your carefully photoshopped image. The spine folds that are never in exactly the right place. The incredibly finicky messing with font size. The checking around image rights. Until finally, cover complete, all you have to do is make sure the other four hundred and fifty five pages are correctly formatted.

It will be worth it. I’m sure.

And remember deadlines are great, until they’re not.

Still aiming for a September 15th release of the paperback. Here’s hoping.

To find out more click on ianhedley.com

Published by redmarshking

Ian Hedley is an independent, horror / dark fantasy writer with an interest in highlighting the challenges young people face with their mental health.

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