One week to publication

In 8 days, As Winter Came and Went will be published!

 

At this stage, there is nothing left for me to do anymore, except wait. I couple of weeks ago, I ordered a proof-copy of the paperback. Once I'd received it, I was able to check all the formatting, and to do some additional proof-reading, which allowed me to find a few real (and embarrassing mistakes) and some commas that I was not wholly satisfied with. Once that was done, I made the corrections on the digital files (paperback and ebook) and uploaded them once again on Kindle Direct Publishing.

 

So now, they are ready for publication. The ebook, which is already available for preorder, will be automatically published on the 4th of December. I will have to publish the paperback manually, however (in the sense that I'll have to go on the website and press the button "submit for publication"). Because it has to be approved and such, and because the process can take up to three days, the paperback might not be available on the 4th, but on the 5th, or even the 6th (if you were desperate to order it on the 4th, you might have to wait a bit longer...).

 

At the last moment, I decided to add an extra illustration at the end of the novel. The book now has a total of 15, one for the prologue, one for each chapter, one for the title page and one for the last page.

 

I have to say, it feels a bit strange to just wait, like that, after all the work that went into the book, the editing and revising and formatting and such. And I'm still worried that there might be some typos left. I mean, it's certain that there'll be typos left, since you can find some even in traditionnally published books that went through professional editing and proofreading. So a self-published book...

 

Anyway, the wait is almost over and soon I will be able to call myself a published author!