I realise I'd omitted the speedboat from the last post. It's the pointy one in the picture above.
Here's a movie of the gangplank. Cue Duran Duran.
Music videos were different in those days. Pink, with much custard and a saxaphone solo.
And repeat. Although 36 Celsius makes it too tempting to simply stop at 'pool'.
The thing I usually forget? To ensure that the page size I'm using is the same in Word, Photoshop and In Design. Otherwise it's almost impossible to get things to align.
Mysteriously this doesn't seem to happen on smaller novels of say 250-300 pages.
The other factor is the choice of cover art. If I open it to mr ARC-readers, they will inevitably pick two different covers. It happened with Artificial, one of the Christina Nott books and now with Secrets. I've rationalised it by having an International cover and a U.S. specific one.