Having just self-published White on Black in eBook and paperback through Kindle Direct Publishing, the matter of editing and production of books is much [just corrected from mush] on my mind.
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Production first, to get that behind us. The paperback looked perfect in the online proof on the Kindle publishing site, so I bravely hit the PUBLISH button. I did order a proof copy, and it arrived nearly 2 weeks later. Cover looked reasonably okay, and then I opened it. Page numbers at top were all cut off, and the first line of book text was at top of the page. That was bad. I had goofed. Back to the drawing board re design.

​Yesterday my proof copy of the paperback finally arrived. Looked good, and then I opened it. One problem immediately leaped out: no margin at top, and page numbers cut off. Why this is I don’t know, although I assume it is a failure in communication between their artificial intelligence (AI) and my non-artificial intelligence (NI). Back to the drawing board to fix the margins.

Bottom margin looks okay. Right margin comes a little closer to the edge than I’d like, so I’ll adjust that. Gutter needs to be adjusted just a smidgen. I probably would not have worried about those 2 if the top margin had been okay, but since that must be improved I’ll try to improve the whole look.