Finally, I am in the home stretch with the proposal for my Fast Track Thriller series. I took a little break for the Labor Day weekend because our son who lives in Kentucky came home for the holiday, and we hosted a dinner and game night with all three of our children and one spouse. Nothing fills a momma's heart so much as when all of her children are back at home together!
Now that I'm back at it, my nemesis has become formatting issues. I'm sure you've probably experienced this yourself, no matter what your field of expertise. Since the first two books in the Fast Track Thriller series, Peril and Conspiracy, have already been published, their manuscripts are highly formatted. Plucking the text from those manuscripts and dropping them into Word, of course caused some formatting issues. They were tedious to fix, but once I got into the groove, it was just a matter of repeating the same corrections over and over again.
Putting my one-sheet into the document, even though it is a Word document, is proving to be much more challenging, because nothing with pictures is easy to work with in Word. At least it didn't mess with the text boxes too--except where they intersected with the pictures. For some reason, Word keeps wanting to put the pictures of my book covers behind the text boxes. I thought I fixed it multiple times, but the moment I clicked S-control to save the document, the pictures disappeared behind the text boxes again! This has happened three times so far.
I just went back to check that the one-sheet part of the proposal saved correctly, and it looks like I'm back to the drawing board, as the pictures of the covers have once again disappeared. So the fight with the formatting is still on. {sigh}
Suzanne Hartman
Author of the Fast Track Thriller series:
