The 18 Day Challenge was too much for me. I forgot to post yesterday.

But here's the good news: my street team LOVES the book. (They are women from their mid-30's to mid-60's.) In fact, one of them asked when the sequel will be out. 

Wait. 

Sequel?... Nope, it's too early to even think about that.

What I am thinking about is the final stuff for publication. If you're interested, read on. If not, just click HERE to pre-order Leaving the Tribe.

When I set up a book for sale, I put the cover and a temporary file online to make it available for pre-order. This is valuable for a writer, because pre-order sales add to first-day sales and boost the book up the algorithms that show new releases to readers.

Once I've heard from editors and readers, I finalize the book for publication. This involves making four different files, two print files and two e-book files. Print fiction usually does not have a table of contents, but it has chapter headings and page numbers. E-books have a table of contents but cannot have page numbers or headings, since people read on all sorts of different devices. That means I need an e-book file and a print book file for Amazon. I also publish with Draft2Digital in both print and e-book. Each of those four files is different. For example, D2D provides an automatic table of contents (if I set up the headings correctly) but Amazon requires me to make one and insert it. Their cover requirements are different (and often maddening). One likes a PDF file for the content. The other prefers Word. And so on to insanity. 

But I'm ready now. It will get done, and all will be right with the world...until next time.