Two weeks have settled since I uploaded Coyote Jack and the Bluebirds to KDP. Now there it is, looking nice and, well...there...on Amazon. I've yet to start marketing it (whatever form that will take), though have sent it out to a few friends to get some early input and hopefully one or two nice reviews before I pump up the jam and get this party started.
The mechanics of formatting and uploading to KDP were pretty straightforward, though with hindsight I could have saved myself a few squinty hours in front of the monitor screen if I'd known how to set up the book for Kindling beforehand. The Table of Contents handed me a small mug of warm shit at one point - for some reason every time I saved the file as a hyperlinked document all traces of my digital docu-webbing were erased the minute I reopened it. In the end I was forced to redo the sodding lot and export it still quivering, though I got there in the end.
The plus side is that some of my friends purchased a version with a broken TOC, and have therefore unwittingly set themselves up for life. That file will be worth millions in years to come. Millions.
Another colossal pain in the arse was the sheer number of typos hiding in the syntactical shadows like little twatty ninjas. You'd have thought that three solid edits by myself and two external proof-reads would have been enough to smoke the word-assassins out, yet still there they were, a bucket load of the little swine, leaping like fleas from the shaggy hide of my novel as the Spellcheck combed them free. Should I happen to find any survivors I will have no choice but to adapt the applicable grammatical or spelling variation into my everyday life in the vague attempt to nullify the typo by rendering it the norm.
Anyway, I'm pleased to have The Bluebirds up and out there, and looking forward to hearing what people think. Go go go...go Coyote, go go go...
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