Pam Uphoff

Ah yes, two days of entering edits from the Grammar Nazis.

(I really need to find a better term for the people who save me from my grammar, punctuation, spelling, and typing errors.)

Then checking the formatting.

Wait. Push the save button. Back it up on the external drive. Always save and always backup.

Okay, back to the formatting.

I’ve got a template all set up, so the fonts and sizes and the styles are consistent with the rest of the series, right from the start. Which doesn’t save me from creating errors when I’ve switched scenes from one chapter to another, or split a chapter that was getting a bit out of hand.

Then there’s the front matter. Title page, legal stuff . . . go find the list and put in the next ISBN . . .

That’s where I hit my first snag.

See, when I first stepped cautiously in to self publishing, I bought block of ten. I mean, I only had three things, but no doubt I’d write more. Right?

Ahem. In a shockingly short time span, I was O. U. T. out. So . . . I was being all professional, and the series did seem to be expanding rather quickly . . .

And here I was all business-like with Iron Ax Press and tax deductions . . . so I bought a hundred. Felt pretty silly, because how could I possible ever need that many?

Well . . . it appears that I’ve been prolific, and what with separate ISBN’s for the paper versions . . .

I was out.

Never thought that would happen . . . but just in case, I bought another hundred.

Okay. ISBN is in place and on to the cover credits. Found the name of the guy to credit for the dinosaur in the background . . . That part was a photo I took, and MidJourney for the Main Character . . .  

Table of Contents . . . Ah, let me finalize the back matter first . . .

Excerpt from an up coming release . . . I really need to finish the one I excepted a couple of books ago, but the next one in this series is nearly finished . . . really. So I’ll stick most of the first chapter here, ending with a silly joke . . .

And the list of books . . . which needs to be updated with the last one I published, and I’m ready to go!

Uh, as soon as I pop back to the Table of Contents, and push a few buttons. Remove a few things that don’t belong there, decide if the spacing’s good . . .

AND SAVE IT!

Check the cover.

It’s good, everything is good. Just open up the KDP page and get to work, done this a hundred times.

Arg! Write the blurb! No spelling errors allowed in the blurb!

Then all the usual, and it’s just a Novella, so no use agonizing over the price . . .  

Then, then, PUSH THE BUTTON!

And get back to work on the next three. Of the eleven on the white board over there . . .