A Day in the Life of an Indie Author
I have to tinker with the Lulu jacket for the third or fourth time and add 20 pages to the manuscript as books with less than 80 pages aren't eligible for global distribution, even though kids' books are normally only like 40 pages. The jacket and manuscript are perfect at Amazon and BookVault, but Lulu distributes through IngramSpark's network, which is vastly superior. So here I am, revising a finished book and redoing a finished jacket, just to appease the industry gods. Then they'll charge me for another round of proof copies before approval for distribution. And somewhere, someone is bitching about how authors like me don't deserve to profit from our writing because we paid $30 to Midjourney instead of $300 to an artist. Six hours later: She did not work on the manuscript or the jacket all day. Instead, she made stupid fucking pixel art memes, chicken and dumplings, and a detailed business plan for upscaling Carolina Moon Tarot into a luxury brand. Time for F...