Remember, I said I had one tiny thing to do and The ABZ Affair would be ready to be sent off for approval. Ha!
I started by proofreading the crafts, and as I suspected, it was a good thing I didn't try to do that last night. There was a fair amount more to do on those.
This lengthened the book by a few pages, and that changed the size of the cover, so I had to fix that.
Then I remembered that I wanted to find a better font for the map. I didn't like the one I was using, but the commercial use was free. Did you know that you can't just use any font you want in a book? For a lot of them you are supposed to purchase a commercial license. But I found one I liked that has no restrictions, so I redid the text on the map. I like the results much better. I'll swap them out in the first two books before I order more copies.
Then I also remembered that I wanted to tweak the illustration with the forklift just a little bit, so I did that.
After that.... I did the one tiny thing, which actually took a couple of hours, a general floor plan of the canning factory.
Then, the cover file had to be converted to a pdf, which took forever for some reason today.
But.. ta-DA! By 4:30 I had the whole thing uploaded to CreateSpace and proofed. Clicked the button to have it approved. Hoping everything goes well, and I can order these books tomorrow.
But, I just did one tiny thing, right?
Cases of the first two, The Secret Cellar and The Hitchhiker, have already shipped!
map of the East South River Road Neighborhood for The ABZ AffairIllustrations for The ABZ Affair
