Wow! This has been one heck of a journey! But things are looking up! I went though my book in the new layout. Fellow authors… please do not get relaxed during this process. Only YOU know how your book should be!
The new layout was great. I liked the font, but not so much all of the indentation. However, after checking it is industry standard. I absolutely hate justified text, but it is also industry standard. 🙂 One of the issues that I had was that the special font I had for the computer talking was totally ignored and changed to regular text. Had to push back on that one. Toward the end of the book two sentences were stripped out of the beginning of one of my chapters. So glad I read through it again. I carefully checked my chapter numbers too. I know when I was reading through my brother’s book (he uses a different publisher) two of his chapter numbers were duplicated and it went to publication that way! I’m hoping they correct it somewhere down the line.
All in all I had nine pages of changes that need to be implemented. What is very important at this stage is that you are as descriptive and complete as possible so that you actually get the changes that you are looking for and don’t have to do a lot of back and forth wit the layout folks. Now it’s waiting time again. Tag! They’re “it.
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