Yeah it’s hot but I’m outside anyway. Camp has begun next door at the school but so far it has been tolerable (no electronic bullhorns or high volume dubstep music).

The book details continue to be challenging. This morning I’m revising the all-important blurb (thanks Deb! Insightful as always).

Yesterday, in trying to get the spine dimension for my book cover designer (which requires knowing not just the number of pages but the weight of the paper), D2D’s support team supplied me with incorrect information (that’s Draft2Digital — a self-publishing aggregator). Groundwood paper? Really? The stuff that turns yellow with age and gets brittle?

Both on Reddit and Facebook, I posted this info and asked if others thought it problematic and if so who should I use for print-on-demand services instead.

The CEO of D2D entered the Reddit thread with the correct info (no, they don’t use groundwood paper). The CEO.

I was a little gobsmacked honestly. I don’t wish ill on the person who supplied me with wrong information, but if she were to be fired it should be for the terse “see my previous email” tone and not for her mistake. Bad form.

The NExT email came from someone else and instead of bitchily referring me to tutorials, explained what I needed to know in some detail. Apologized twice. Onward!

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This at-times-blurry video (below) of a work-in-progress is 54 seconds long. The wobble of cloth is caused by the air coming through a vent near my feet.

Shown: words printed on silk. I also printed them on a sturdy canvas but I think I like the delicacy of the silk. Now to decide where to put them and whether I want pink cloth behind them or not.

It’ll be 93 here in another hour and a half. Not radically unusual but hot and sticky nevertheless. My weather app says that, counting in the humidity, it will feel like 101 degrees.

Lots more mosquitos than other years. Ugh.