Carpe Diem Scroto The Book blog

Well, there has come a point where new setbacks have occurred. It now looks like I may not be able to offer an eBook like I originally thought I would at this point in the books journey to publication. I may also be selling the book privately for a short time. What this means, is that book orders will most likely take up to 3 weeks to get to the customer due to shipping arrangements and the like. I am hoping that this is not going to be the case for very long if that is the option I have to choose, however, I am uncertain. 

This is not what I had planned and not how I wanted to conduct the release of my book. But when you have so many variables to deal with, it is hard to account for all of the hiccups that come along the way. Such is life, am I right?

What I can confirm is that things are at this moment still on track for the December 8th Book Launch Party, which may now be an intimate gathering of friends and family and well-wishers. I still have to confer with my PR Team as to how they wish to handle this.

So I will keep you all updated as things continue to unfold. Thank you all for your support and understanding. 

These last few months have been some of the most difficult and stressful. I honestly understand why "professional" authors hire Literary Agents and Traditional Publishing companies. The amount of red tape and hoops that an independent author has to jump through is enough to make you go absolutely insane!

Also no one ever really talks about the out-of-pocket costs of writing a book. You have to take care of every little thing yourself. Thankfully I already had some experience with doing gig jobs and have a background in marketing, and doing product reviews and things like that, so I wasn't completely blindsided when it came to who to turn to in order to get some things done. Other things, like ISBN numbers and other book related things have all been new learning experiences and will help me in the future should I go through with publishing other books. But I really do believe that IF there is a next time that I will seek out more traditional methods of publishing.

The issues that I am facing right now with the book is getting the eBook fixed so that it will render properly across all the eBook devices and that it will render on mobile phones. But I have sent the information of to my editor and should have it taken care of soon (fingers crossed.)

 If it's not one thing its 60 others. So due to the editor taking time that we didn't have, the PR team and I decided to push back the release date until 12/8/24.

This is not a decision that I am taking lightly and am actually rather upset at the fact that it has to be done, but there are too many pieces of the puzzle and with some people who have said that they will do XYZ and then not following through, it has caused a lot of stress and anger. So, without throwing people under the bus, Im just going to say that things haven't lined up properly. 

But I have to have faith that everything happens for a reason and whatever this "reason" is, it must be something good right? If I were a more superstitious person, I would almost think that this endeavor was cursed lol. 

I can now understand how important it is to have a literary agent, because they are the ones that take care of all of this. Maybe that is where my focus for the next book is going to be. Getting it done, and then getting an agent to take care of making sure all of the T's are crossed and the I's are dotted.

So for right now this is how its playing out.