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It's friggin hard!
I spent several hours assembling my book for print format, which is almost entirely different than digital format in case people were wondering. The only thing that's the same are the words I wrote. The page layout, margins, everything is different. It was harder with my first book; the enormous girth of which required me to cut corners to get it to fit so where it didn't COST me money to sell them. That said, looser word count and tighter control over the process (CreateSpace has opened up more options for me this time through) allowed me to do a much better job setting the book up.
I am going to look at re-doing book one, if anything to put it in the proper sizing. I'll get it cleaned up and maybe I can still get it in at-cost. That would be nice. I don't really make a lot of money off the paperback sales yet, so I suppose that it makes no difference so long as I have a quality book out there. I am looking forward to seeing book two final proof in my hands!
As a side note: even after Christmas, my books are doing extremely well! It is very encouraging to me to see that it's wanted. I'm working on my next book in the Spellscribed series, but first The Scroll of Suns and Moons must be finished!
I wonder what I'm going to do for the cover of that book?
I don't know if you have already decided on a cover as this post is almost a month old, but if it were me I would do a cover relating to the five different elemental swords which from a readers perspective seem to be important in elven culture and magic. Another idea would be to do a play off the Yin Yang symbol with a sun and a moon.
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