Reading paper

As mentioned on various social media platforms... it's a book.

Very exciting to hold a copy in my hands. Funny how that goes. I am huge proponent of ebooks, and have published a few. But for some reason, holding that trade paperback in my hands is something else all together. I also love plunking it down on my night table next to the stack of books that I keep planning to read. It sits there very nicely.

Wanted to give a shout out to the people at CreateSpace - the product is very well done. The support was quite good - I did break a bunch of rules, having the typography bleed off the edge like that, and that created a cycle of rejection from the CS folk. Mental note: maybe next time don't do that.
But nonetheless, it got figured out, and they finally accepted my design.

So this is actually the proof copy - meaning it is the last stage of proofing before I release the book into the wild. In others words, you can pick it up at Amazon, or I am going to getting a whack of copies to giveaway. If you have read Surf City here at the blog, and you live in my city, there's a good chance I will give you one (or at least, charge you a very minimal amount to cover costs.)

Now, I've edited this thing a lot - and others have had eyes on it - so I expected to find very little in the way of mistakes or needed edits. Uhhhhhhhhhhm... right. 

How the hell did I miss these things?

Well, editing 101 is work from a hard copy for those final edits (and maybe even earlier versions.)

So yes, it's a book. And soon it will be a better edited one.

"Great novels are never finished, they are abandoned."
(Can never remember whose quote that is.)