Bunches of Stuff Happened

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PG owed Mrs. PG a lot of tasks today.

She has revamped the backmatter in her older books, wants to revert to earlier covers that aren’t so dark for some, insert a promo for her latest book, etc., etc.

These tasks have refamiliarized PG with Jutoh, his go-to formatting tool during the early stages of Mrs. PG’s self-publishing adventures when she was refreshing and redoing books for which she had regained rights from a former publisher that was a bit sloppy with its contracts.

That was PG’s earliest experience with dissecting publishing agreements and it delivered Mrs. PG and several of her books from backlist penury into the shining meadows of indie publishing.

Suffice to say, PG’s formatting practices went through various iterations during the early processes of preparing new ebook and pbook versions of Mrs. PG’s novels, so he spent a bit of time today becoming reacquainted with his old learning curve which took jumps from book to book and standardizing his formatting practices across several books so when he needs to do something with these titles again, it should be less of a journey of discovery than it was today.

Jutoh was and is an excellent program that provides many, many options and controls over every tiny element of a book’s appearance (PG went crazy with styles for a while and can’t remember why he liked some of them so much), but PG’s recent experience formatting books with Kindle Create is a far more rapid process that produces more uniform results.

That’s PG’s excuse for catching up on TPV posts later in the day than is normal.