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As the March 24 pub date for my upcoming nonfiction book [title to be revealed soon] approaches, I am trying to post more updates. So what is new?
1. New websites are up and running. Amazon description is finalized.
2. I received 130 page proofs from the interior designer. In other words, this is a semi-final look inside the book with all the text, quotations, and cartoons laid out as in the actual book. Though printed on 8.5 x 11 inch paper, the printed area is what will appear in the final 5 x 7 inch book.
3. My job is to go over this with a fine-tooth comb to make corrections or any other changes. As long as I don’t alter things too much, especially if what I alter doesn’t require additional pages or a lot of retyping, the schedule won’t be delayed. When I am absolutely, positively, certain of the final version, then I scan the whole thing to a pdf and return it to my editor – BY MONDAY. She and her staff are also going over this for errors and typos as well. That means the final, really final, version should be ready when I return from speaking at Limmud NY over President’s Weekend.
4. That final version will go to the 8 blurbers who have volunteered to read it and hopefully provide some praise I can quote.
5. An e-blast to announce the book is ready. I plan to start emailing them when I return on Feb 15. Since G-mail only permits me to send 500 a day and I have over 4000 contacts, that will take me at least a week. So if you email me, you should get yours sometime between Feb 16-24.
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As the March 24 pub date for my upcoming nonfiction book [title to be revealed soon] approaches, I am trying to post more updates. So what is new?1. New websites are up and running. Amazon description is finalized.
2. I received 130 page proofs from the interior designer. In other words, this is a semi-final look inside the book with all the text, quotations, and cartoons laid out as in the actual book. Though printed on 8.5 x 11 inch paper, the printed area is what will appear in the final 5 x 7 inch book.
3. My job is to go over this with a fine-tooth comb to make corrections or any other changes. As long as I don’t alter things too much, especially if what I alter doesn’t require additional pages or a lot of retyping, the schedule won’t be delayed. When I am absolutely, positively, certain of the final version, then I scan the whole thing to a pdf and return it to my editor – BY MONDAY. She and her staff are also going over this for errors and typos as well. That means the final, really final, version should be ready when I return from speaking at Limmud NY over President’s Weekend.
4. That final version will go to the 8 blurbers who have volunteered to read it and hopefully provide some praise I can quote.
5. An e-blast to announce the book is ready. I plan to start emailing them when I return on Feb 15. Since G-mail only permits me to send 500 a day and I have over 4000 contacts, that will take me at least a week. So if you email me, you should get yours sometime between Feb 16-24.
The book’s text has been copyedited and I approved most of the copyeditor’s changes. After several emails between me and the illustrator, all the cartoons are finished to my satisfaction. Most recently, the interior designer has given me several examples of how the first ten pages, which is essentially all of chapter one, might look. Based on this I had to choose a style for all of the pages: how the cartoons should be framed; what font and frame, if any, would best suit the quotes; how to indicate Talmud section numbers; font and dingbats for page numbers.
Now comes the tricky part. Due to the complicated interior design, where 78 quotes and 17 cartoon illustrations have to be seamlessly integrated into the text of 50 Talmud discussions, it may be only a week or it may take longer until I get to see what the semifinal manuscript will look like. Then I go over it with a fine-toothed comb, as this is my last time to make changes that won’t delay the pub date or cost money to fix. Thankfully 2016 is a leap year, so I get an extra day in February for later book chores.