So, my last post was right on the money – it did indeed take much longer than expected to get the cover done, but for different reasons than I expected.
After a few days of trying my hand at creating a cover, I realized that while I may feel familiar enough with the software to create one, my artistic sense hasn’t yet been developed well enough to make a cover I would have been satisfied with.
So, I bit the bullet and worked with a cover designer to get it done. That finished up, finally, towards the end of October, or beginning of November, at which point the last thing remaining (of many last things, of course), was to finish going through the changes from my editor. Throw in a two-month international trip overseas, with two young kids, and what turned out to be several weeks of work took several months instead.
That being said, the cover is done. The edits are done. The only things left are to:
- Format the ebook; ultimately I’ll also format it for print
- Create the site for the book
- Put it up for sale!
I didn’t reach my goal of publishing this in 2022, but it will certainly be done in 2023 – and should, fingers crossed, be out the door in the next few weeks.
I. Can’t. Wait!