Unveiling: An Inner Journey Exceeds Expectations

What I expected, dear one, was that Unveiling: An Inner Journey – as a 315 page manuscript (sans index) would turn into a 310 page book.

I was shocked to find, yesterday, when I downloaded the full interior text layout, that it ran to more than 600 pages. 600 6×9 inch (standard “trim” size for a trade book) pages. Yes, I asked for (and got) a fairly big font size – 13 pitch Garamond 3 (normal is 12), and generous between-line and between-paragraph spacings.

We – the likely corps of Unveiling readers – are often women “of a certain age.” We’re most likely going to read this book as a private little “treat” for ourselves. We’ll dip into this when we want to be nurturing – for ourselves, rather than for others. And when we’re in this state, the last thing we need is a book printed in micro-font. We’re likely enough to be reaching for reading glasses as it is; there’s no need to make it more difficult.

So Unveiling is formatted for easy readability. The result is that we’ll be toting a BIG book!

The plus side of all of this is that Travis Craine, my Publishing Consultant from CreateSpace (who is doing the actual book layout and production set-up), assures me that we can have a Kindle version right on the heels of the print one. That will be a boon to all of us who want to read on a long plane flight, or on the train to and from work. Thank God that increasing filesize does not add physical weight!