Or, to be precise, the first wave, because Createspace would only let me print out a few at a time, the damn bastards. *shakes fist*
There was a bit of a delay because I’m technically challenged when it comes to images, and in case it wasn’t obvious, I made the ARC covers myself and had to pester my usual cover artist in the middle of the night to assist me in uploading them in the correct size/file format (she’s a Goddamned saint, and Ash, I promise you someday you will get paid properly). I don’t have any fancy art equipment, just a Wacom tablet, Microsoft Paint, and GIMP (which I hate using, the program is counter-intuitive to me and triggers all my rage meters). The Wacom tablet is finicky and sometimes I end up having to use my mouse anyway. At some point I may pick up Photoshop, especially if I start doing more covers and artwork. Which reminds me that I have to update this damn website. *head desk*
But that said, it’s here. All 118,000+ words of my creative garbage. I may have mentioned this before but I do the majority of the work on my books, other than the covers (which my mysterious artiste usually takes care of, so you can see why this one caused me a lot of headaches) and editing (which I get done by taking advantage of the World Tree Publishing editing-exchange work program, which still requires heavy involvement from me. We also make use of fancy software at the end of the passes to catch errors we otherwise wouldn’t have. We got the software after the roast peasant incident, in case anyone is wondering…).
