One mini meltdown

You have your manuscript set up just the way you want it. It’s beautiful. In your eyes. You take to the library to upload your treasure. Would you like to add a cover picture? Yes. You have the perfect picture. Upload. Wait. What? It’s sideways! You search in vain on how to fix this. You have to wait for your e-book to go live. This is a disaster. You e-mail a friend to have a mini meltdown and rant about your disaster. While you wait.

Wait!

And wait!

It’s live.

The formatting on the inside is a mess. But it was perfect when you saved it. What happened? You try again. More formatting. Back to the library. At least you learned how to preview before you publish. It still looks like crap. What the?!

I know one copy of the mess was purchased. Thank you. 💕

What to do? YouTube! You reformat your manuscript for, what feels like the 100th time. This is important to you. You will do it as many times as it takes. The formatting mess is left live: A. Because you forgot to archive it. And B. Your lunch break is only an hour.

Armed with new knowledge, you return. More formatting.

Back to the library. Unpublish the ugly one. Upload the new one. It finally looks good. 🎉

Wait.

And Wait.

https://youtu.be/decO68mL-tU?si=A7RSQfCAzi5qBJfY This video is amazing at teaching you how to format your e-book in Word. I haven’t watched the book section yet. 🫢

The second edition of my first e-book is ALIVE. Thank you WordPress/Jetpack family for reading my work and giving me the courage to try.

Right off the bat, I found a mistake on the title page. All of that and there’s a mistake on the title page. 🫣

Back to the library.

Wait!

Right off the bat, this has been a test in patience.

Wait!

Wait some more.

For the 3rd time, it’s ALIVE! This has truly been a learning experience. I’m sure the formatting isn’t perfect.

💕

A special thank you to

http://ozarkwaterpal.com.

Y’all are great. I hope this is the first of many.