Hey everyone! Thanks for stopping by. I hope everyone is doing well. Before I start, I just want to say how devestating this hurricane season has been. I know I've asked several times, but I feel as though I should once more. Please, if you can, donate to either Harvey or Irma relief. There are thousands in need of your help.
Onto a more positive light, I want to finish off this publication post and talk about what came next. The next part was incredibly exhaustive. Page did a full edit on the book. Granted it wasn't a bad edit because my wife was my story editor. She pretty much cleaned up most of it before I sent it to them. But they still had some comments that I needed to pick up. That took a long, long time. It was such a relief when that stage was over. I like my book, but I've read it about five times over in such a short span of time that it was starting to wane on me. It's the most painstaking, but the most important stage of the entire process.
After I approved the final edit, I was finally able to move onto Page Design. This dealt with font, chepter titles, headers, footers, dedications, and any images within the book (I'll talk about the images some other time). If you are drawing all of the images yourself, like I did, it takes some time since I didn't have time to do both edit and draw at the same time. I only really get to work on the book early in the morning and only for 30 minutes to an hour. It also took time because I was very picky on how they looked in the book.
The final major step was Cover Design. The moment I had been waiting for. I knew exactly what I wanted, but I had to wait for the artist to send me his rendition. I scrapped the first image and gave the artist the second image with the better color. At first the color looked a little too much like a bodily fluid for my taste. Without really giving the artist direction, they made the exact cover I was looking for. Check it out on my Instagram if you haven't seen it yet!
And with that, the final book was approved and published. It was a long and tiring process, but I'm glad I made it through it. Now the book is legitimately out there. I don't have the full PR backing of a traditional publishing house, but I'll figure out another way. I've been attempting to become better at social media and put things out there. Hopefully that will pay off. Thanks for stopping by and have a great Friday!