On editing

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I get why editors are paid for this. Editing The Fob Bible is a complicated and involved process. Add to that that I am also the de facto designer and I got decisions up the wazoo. What verse, what image, what order, what, what, what.

Big shoutout to all you editors out there. You're great.

Do you hear the angels singing?

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Wikisalvation!

Holy crap, you guys have no idea how hard this is

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It has taken me days (days!) just to get the typesetting program (and ancillary programs) installed and running.

Assuming it's running.

I'm going to take it out for a test drive tomorrow.

Pray for me.

Th'editor-in-chief's to-do list.

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Text

Finish Ezekial short
Try and finish writing a polishing my Jeremiah story
Gather in all remaining rewrites
Reedit and proofread entire book
Petition foreward from Almighty God

Illustrations

Select illustrations for each piece
Edit prescanned illustrations
Order missing illustrations from either the library or Dover
Scan needed illustrations
Choose captions

Design

Finalize on book dimensions
Purchase Tyndale
Select other font (or fonts--there may be three total)
Figure out how things will be layed out and spaced and use of white space (etc etc etc)

Typesetting

Learn XeLaTex
Typeset the entire book
Make sure it actually works
And doesn't suck
Save as pdfs

Cover

Come up with a Lady Steed-approved concept
Check with subeditors before finalizing
Trick Lady Steed into doing it for me

Publication

Figure out most economical way to obtain ISBN
Send to POD

&c.

Distribute pdfs to wiling reviewers
Sit for interview
Get Costco to purchase 10,000 copies