I still have
not heard back from AuthorHouse. I checked Amazon this morning and my book is
for sale there… with a two to three week lead time. Wow. I’m still struggling.
I don’t want anyone buying the book in this state. I sent two more emails to AH
this morning; more strongly worded than the past two days’ messages.
I’m
struggling with coming to terms with how much of this is really MY fault. Yes,
I should have made absolutely sure on the pictures. I should not have trusted
that when they took the color photos and turned them grayscale that they would
adjust the contrast as necessary. Then there’s the fact that the proofing is
done online without seeing the actual copy (and now finding that actual copy to
be unacceptable).
A lesson to
anyone doing self publishing – these print-on-demand places print exactly what
you send and don’t question anything. Why should they care? They get your
money. So if what you send isn’t perfect, too bad. Oh, my lessons are always so
costly financially to me!
Should I
have known better to make my pictures lighter? I thought I had enough contrast.
What I see on my computer screen looks good to me. How could I tell that the
pictures wouldn’t print well on book paper? And yes, when I edited the color
photos to send, I did peek at grayscale and thought they looked fine. So, what
happened?
Am I now stuck
with this? I am feeling that all my work the past year and a half has been for
naught.
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