Who cares what day it is? I’ve been stuck in the ditch for a week now, so time is losing all relevance.
Can you tell it’s not going well? Writing this from a deep well of frustration. I went back and, I thought, fixed all of the formatting problems, followed KDP’s publishing guide step-by-step, went back to the beginning and uploaded my shiny, clean, sparklingly new file…and it STILL is telling me I don’t have a cover, I don’t have a TOC, I don’t have an NCX file (whatever the heck that is). I can see the cover thumbnail is there! I can see and use the TOC in the preview! What do you mean I don’t have them? Plus, it’s listing 47 pages of HTML errors, which is a foreign language to me (not one of the 3 I speak, unfortunately).
This is so disheartening, because I am so close, I can almost taste it, but technology is just dangling the tantalizing spoon in front of me, taunting me for my lack of technical skills.
Grrr!
All right. Veni, vidi, vented…Back to the drawing board. Getting very close to just saying screw it and turning it over to a pro…
But I want to do this myself! she wailed.
Send me some good mojo, folks, we’re heading for a bumpy landing!
Hang in there, Julia! It’s a lot to learn, isn’t it? I just finished formatting my novel for CreateSpace, and the next thing is formatting it for Kindle. I’m really relating to your blogs about the ups and downs. You have all my empathy! Take care of yourself!!! Sher
Thanks for the boost, Sher–obviously, I needed it! Hope to launch this soon and I know, it will all be worth it. š