After waiting almost two weeks for hate mail from Apple telling me that I don’t know how to format an .epub file, I just found out today that Breath of Life is now available in the iBooks store (and through iTunes). I can’t really provide a link, since you can only find it by searching within the app, but I swear it’s there. 
Of course, it would have been nice to have Apple inform me that it had been accepted (Amazon KDP always sends an email once a book is live on the site), but, based on how un-user-friendly the whole iTunes Connect platform is, I guess I shouldn’t be surprised. Don’t get me wrong — I am a serious Apple fangirl and have been from way back. My house contains an iMac, a MacBook Air, a MacBook Pro, an iPad, and an iPod Touch. What I’m trying to say is that we’re some major Apple consumers over here. However, Apple has a long way to go before it comes even close to the streamlined interface Amazon has for uploading books.
Then again, I’m engaged in a battle of the wills with Amazon (okay, a one-sided battle of wills, since their side mostly consists of ignoring my emails) because I’ve been trying for almost a week to get some data corrected in a book file I uploaded last week. Basically, I have a book I published years ago under a different name. I revised and updated it, gave it a new cover, and uploaded the new files, changing the information in the author information field at the same time. Well, the new book is there, and the new cover is there…but the Christine Pope name isn’t. Le sigh. So I’ve been emailing and emailing to get them to correct that, because I can’t use that book as a promotional tool (I enrolled it in KDP Select), and I can’t do much with it at all until it’s got “Christine Pope” on the cover. Double le sigh.
I just checked, and Mercury isn’t retrograde, so I can’t blame it on that. Anyway, as soon as I get that mess straightened out, I’ll post links and more info here. At the rate I’m going, that should be sometime next week. 
