Sky Treader in Print?

Yep!  Well, not quite yet.  I've only just submitted it, and have to wait for it to go through approval before I can order the proofs.  It's small — like, children's book small — which is part of the reason I chose Sky Treader for my test book.  Depending on how easily the process goes from here, and how well I like the proofs, I plan on staggering print releases with Kindle releases.  I could, in theory, release both the Kindle and the print versions at the same time, but that would mean I'd always have to have a second book in buffer, since I'm placing the first 1000 or so words of the next book at the end of each one.

I'd been told that the covers tend to be tricky to set up, but I actually found that the easiest part of the process.  Since I have .psd files of all my covers, it was just a matter of expanding it from just a front cover to a full cover, and my designs are simple enough that it took about 20 minutes.  The hardest part was figuring out that I had to flatten the image before exporting it as a .pdf, as required by the printer.  In fact, the hardest part of the whole process was figuring out why Word thought I wanted all of my text to be vertically centred.  I only ever have problems like that when I use someone else's template, but I've tweaked it enough that I'll be able to use it for all future titles without that problem.