After working through a few issues with photoshop (probably user-induced), I managed to complete the back cover file and then uploaded it to Createspace. It looks the way I want it to, which is a big relief.
Finished the book description and the about the author and entered that in Createspace - this shows up on the book's Amazon page.
Spent quite some time finishing the details of the book layout page by page. Things like setting margins chapter by chapter to justified. Can't justify the whole book at once because of the chapter numbers and I include a location, and date and time which all need to be left justified.
Had a little disappointment - when a chapter breaks in time or place, it's customary to insert a few lines and a graphic of some sort - sometimes just asterisks. I had created a great looking staff sergeant (4 stripes) jpeg and inserted three of those for breaks and it printed great from Word. When I converted the file to pdf, which Createspace requires, the images became just slightly fuzzy. Enough to be unacceptable. Ended up using a Word wingding instead, which I really like, too. It's similar to the star found on much of the U.S. equipment:
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So all in all a good day's (and night's) work.
Tomorrow night, I'm going to write a post about some of the books I use for my research and reference. Where possible, I'll include their Amazon links.
Thanks for sharing your time with me today!
See you tomorrow.
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