Look what showed up at my door today!
It’s the proof of Air in the Paragraph Line #13, hot off the presses. When you set up a book with Lightning Source, they overnight you a copy and you look to make sure the cover isn’t upside down and backward or that it’s not on the wrong size paper or missing a UPC code or something like that. Trouble is, UPS’s definition of “overnight” changes meaning over a three-day weekend, so I didn’t get it for a few days.
The good news is, I can do the proof thing in one step now. Back with Lulu, I had to do a proof of the book with no ISBN number or barcode, then buy a distribution package, have them lay on the barcode, then order a second proof.
The book looks great, and I approved the proof, so now it goes through the series of tubes and ends up on Amazon in a matter of weeks. If the suspense is killing you, email me and I can sell you copies direct (although I can’t confirm or deny my wholesale price here, due to some business-type legalese.)
It also looks like the Kindle edition may hit Amazon well before the print one, so both of you that actually have a Kindle will be able to get that version for way cheap. More on that later…
