Friday, July 29, 2016
Createspace Glitch
CREATESPACE and PUBLISHING
DATE
For independent writers working with
createspace, you may not realize that the publication date for your book is
recorded with the first manuscript that is uploaded to the website, even if you
don’t approve the proof or complete the submission. If the title remains the
same and you submit subsequent manuscripts to make changes or update the copy for
what becomes your published book, the publication date will hark back to the
initial submission.
I changed my mind about the
cover graphic of What Missing Means
and had Stanard Design Partners insert a different illustration. Though my book
will be available weeks after July 7, that date, when I submitted the first
copy, is recorded as the publication date. In other words, if you upload a manuscript
you revise for several weeks or months before getting a proof you can approve, you’ll
be stuck with an earlier, inaccurate publication date.
My previous novel, Dust On the Bible, has a publication
date in November 2015 though it wasn’t actually published until December. When
I received the hard copy proof of the initial submission, the font appeared larger
than it did on my computer screen. We made changes to the format and
resubmitted it. Though I only approved the proof weeks later, I’m stuck with
the date of the first submission as the publication date.
JANUARY IS BETTER THAN
DECEMBER
About publication dates, it
is better to publish your book early in the year, January, February, or March.
Many competitions for awards restrict entries to books published within a
certain calendar year, and if yours is published in December, you don’t have
time to research and make submissions. As soon as Dust on the Bible was published in 2015 (December), it was
perceived in the industry as a year old only a month later, in January 2016.
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