Rolling Down the Track!

Don't try and buy a ticket on The Mountain Daylight. It won't be rolling through the Rockies of Montana stopping in Missoula, Helena, Bozeman, Billings and Bismarck & Fargo, North Dakota for while. When it does, you will want to climb aboard and catch the many adventures of the crew and the characters living in the communities it serves.

Today, I approved the final layout for the front and back covers. Next will be the final approval of the electronic file. Any good proof readers out there that work cheap? I'll need your help. My brain has uploaded this story and refuses to skip words that aren't there and tends to insert articles automatically. The manuscript is not error free. I'm sure of that. How many errors did you see in the last published novel that you read? I have found plenty. Anybody read the last version of "The English Patient?" It is riddled in errors. Every time my book is touched by human hands something goofy happens. Somehow the publisher thinks it is my job to find the mistakes. But, I've been warned by other authors to look carefully at each page on the final file for format errors. Proof reading has never been my strength.

Once the electronic proof is approved, the publisher will build the website for the book and produce a physical proof. Once the physical proof is approved, the book can be sent to the printer who has two weeks to produce the inventory. After that, I'm not sure just when it can be purchased by the on-line sellers. Amazon can take up to two months after release. I hope that is not the case here. The publisher sends them the information well in advance hoping that they will input the information into their system. No one wants to expend energy until they are assured of a book.

When will this all happen? Let's not guess.