It's not like my projects really have well-defined role boundaries; I take on projects where I get to / have to do a lot of different things. For this book, I did a small amount of writing, more editing, some art direction, page layout, and now I'm shifting in to the boring tail end of finishing up a project.
I don't mind the tedious tasks at the end of this project very much, because it marks an actual finish line, actually completing a thing, which I'm not very good at. I start a lot of things, and I get distracted, hey! Let's ride bikes!
I uploaded some version of the "release candidate" PDF to Drive Thru RPG last night, some version to Amazon this morning, a slightly different version of the PDF to FedEx/Kinko's last night, and now, to reference Alton Brown, I just walk away. This book is like scrambled eggs. Just walk away. Let it firm up, let it rest, let the heat even out so that the center is done.
Drive Thru RPG says that it'll take a while to validate my upload, and I imagine this week is worse than normal, because GenCon is right around this time.
Amazon says it may take 72 hours to do their verification, which takes me into the weekend. Maybe into next week, depending on how those 72 hours fall.
It feels good to be powerless, in a really weird way; again, this is the finish line of this project. Just walk away.
Oh, also, shout out to Danielle at the Woodinville, Washington FedEx/Kinko's for making sure that my "release candidate" draft looks the way I wanted it. It's not important, but I'm glad to have a one-off edition that I'm proud of.
