This past Friday morning I sent an email to Page Publishing. Edit Approved. After their editors went over the manuscript I was invited to re-read it again to see if everything was ok.
I did, and found a few problems. Not big ones, mind you, mostly problems I had with the flow of conversations. These I changed, sending them on with the line numbers indicated and how the new sentence was supposed to read. I even found a misspelled word. Where is spellcheck when you need it? Actually the "misspelled word" was spelled correctly, it was simply the wrong word. These revisions were quickly resolved and the corrected manuscript was put up for further scrutiny.
Oh well, little things do get missed. It sort of focuses the mind to know this will be the last time I read this book while the text is still fluid. Of course, if this process drags on and on, the work will never be finished and never be published either. As with any project, there must be a date when all is done.
The next step? Typesetting. I have no idea which font they will determine to be the best. I'm not an expert in these matters, so I'll leave the choices entirely up to them with minimal input to me.
I'll keep you posted.
