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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

An important announcement....:

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A Quorum of Fobs met today at the Thteed household.

Roll Call:

Theric (founding member of Fob Almighty, charter member of Fob East Bay)
Tolkien Boy (second-generation member of Fob Almighty, charter member of Fob Seattle)
Petra (Official Fob Mascot)
Ginsberg (FOFob extraordinaire)

Expected but unfortunately not in attendance was Jane Dough, the third charter member of Fob East Bay.

Before the normal sort of "expected" fobbery and during the bagels, Fob Bible Project Chair and Head Editor Theric officially proposed his schedule for completing the much ballyhooed Fob Bible. As seen above.

The quorum accepted the proposal and it has since been made so.

To explicate:

The Fob Bible is once again open to new work. Please submit. We desire each to have at least one piece in the finished whole. You have until June 20.

July 10 will be the final day for rewrites or illustrations to be submitted. On this day, design will begin in earnest.

By July 31 the finalized, designed manuscript will be ready for publication. Only glaring errors can be considered for repair at this point.

The book will be available for purchase by August 15 through one POD or another.

Again: we want everyone to participate. It is not too late.