Amazon wanted me to fiddle with the paperback pricing, because they’re selling paperbacks in Australia now. Fine by me—all the paperbacks except Dislocated World were done on CreateSpace, and there’s some weirdness with the distribution in Amazon’s markets as a result, so I figured I’d fix that.
Then I got to feeling like I should order proofs of the paperback versions of Trang, Trust, and The Weirld, because who knows? Strange things can happen when you switch printers.
I did that, they came…and yeah, they look a little funny now. Like, the covers are there and the interiors are there, so you’re getting a book, but they definitely rendered a little differently, and I feel like they could all use a bit of an update just so that the type is clear and whatnot. You know, once I have the chance to do that. In the meantime I went ahead and approved them, since they’re readable and whatnot.
Aaaand Amazon just told me that Trust cannot be approved for publication because the cover has errors on it.
Remember: I ordered a proof. If there are the kind of errors that make a cover so that it can’t be published, that’s supposed to come up before the writer pays for the proof. Traditionally, the proof is supposed to be the finished product, and proof approval = ready to go.
I guess when you’re deliberately making the proof cover so that no one can see the art, this all makes perfect sense.