Well, after all my hard work it looks like I'm going to have to swtich to Lulu. Blurb's software program is a major pain. It turns out that the program itself adds two blank pages between every chapter -- which is one reason the page count is running over. Plus, when you finally edit out those blank pages, it won't let you add the rest of your novel in at the end. Worse: it won't let you indent paragraphs. You must use line breaks -- which ads even more pages to your book. If you do try to indent using the tab, it indents the line 15 characters in! And you can't change the tab size. If you try to manually indent, say 3 spaces, it doesn't wrap the sentence into the next line. It forces it over the margin where it is cut off and lost in limbo somewhere. All in all, a mess -- with crappy customer service as well. They never have an answer for any of these questions, except to say "there is no workaround at this time."

Lulu forces me to charge more per book, but at least it gives me plenty of pages to work with and has the know-how to provide relevant information to authors, such as the mandatory requirements for national and global distribution.

Ahhh, but all those days of work getting the manuscript ready for Blurb -- all lost. Console me. Tell me it's okay. Shit. Where's the scotch!?