It could have been easy to upload the manuscript as an ebook and have Amazon derive a printed edition from that. But that's not what I wanted. I desire and need something that has shown real effort made toward something beautiful. Or at least as beautiful as a guy without a strong background in visual design can pull off.
So it is, that after a lot of work in the past several days, a finished book - from front title to description and author picture on the back cover - now exists. And it looks BEAUTIFUL, if I do say so myself.
The hardest part has been coming up with a description. My life has been such a complex thing, that it's been very hard to boil it down to the space of a few brief paragraphs. But I came up with something and perhaps it will catch the attention of potential readers.
Well, it's done. There is now a hardcover volume that after it goes through Amazon's approval process (something I'll admit some concern about, there's no telling what could result in it getting rejected and sent back for revision) will be soon available for purchase. I don't know when that will be. But I'm thinking on a Tuesday would be good. That seems to be the day that most books get released on. The plan is still to have the hardcover, the softcover, and the paperback released at the same time.
I hope this sells some. When I ran for school board I told everyone that I was going to be very happy if just ten people voted for me. I wound up getting almost forty-seven hundred votes. If only two or three people buy my book, I will be thankful.
More soon.
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