{"id":821,"date":"2011-03-03T12:56:55","date_gmt":"2011-03-03T17:56:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.old.caraghobrien.com\/book\/?p=821"},"modified":"2011-04-22T09:47:22","modified_gmt":"2011-04-22T13:47:22","slug":"behind-the-scenes-from-copyedits-to-first-pass-pages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/miscellaneous\/behind-the-scenes-from-copyedits-to-first-pass-pages\/","title":{"rendered":"Behind the Scenes: From Copyedits to First Pass Pages"},"content":{"rendered":"

After I finished going through the copyedits<\/a> of Prized<\/em>, I emailed the manuscript back to my editor Nancy Mercado at Roaring Brook in mid-December.\u00a0 The next step was a series of emails we had in early January, when Nan checked back with me about a few of my changes and other things she\u2019d noticed, like whether a character would be called by his first or last name in a particular line of dialogue.\u00a0 Here\u2019s another example, with my reply in italics:<\/p>\n

Pg 153 \u201cShe might be too polite to say anything, but she was far from blind.\u201d This isn\u2019t part of Dinah\u2019s dialogue, is it? Just checking. You just mean add this to the line, yes? Yes. \u00a0It is NOT dialogue, but just a comment on her thinking, and it goes on the same line as Gaia’s “indeed” line because it’s Gaia’s reaction.<\/em><\/p>\n

All writing, revising, editing, and copyediting were finished, and at that point, Nan told me the book was heading off to layout\u2014a significant milestone.\u00a0 That was when the manuscript would be transformed from a Word document to pages that actually looked like a book.<\/p>\n

Most of the design work didn’t involve me, understandably.\u00a0 However, anytime I included an image, like hand-writing or a freckle pattern or a map, it was a design issue where my input was considered.\u00a0 Like Birthmarked<\/em>, Prized<\/em> also has a code in it (why not, right?) and for the original manuscript, I drew the code, took photos of it, and dropped the photos in the document where I needed them.\u00a0 They were basically place-holder images, but once designer April Ward was considering the look of the page, I rewrote the code again, took more photos, sent them in, and conferred with Nan about which images we actually needed.\u00a0 By early February, Nan forwarded a file to me of how the thirteen pages with specific design issues would look.\u00a0 They seemed gorgeous to me, frankly.\u00a0 By the time April finished refining, even a certain shadow was perfectly aligned.\u00a0 It\u2019s the sort of thing that delights me, and\u00a0 I am deeply grateful for April\u2019s beautiful work.<\/p>\n

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First Pass Pages for Prized<\/p><\/div>\n

This week, Nan sent me the first pass pages for Prized<\/em>, with each page laid out exactly as it will be printed in the final book.\u00a0 Now is my chance to read through it one last time for any changes I can\u2019t live without.\u00a0 It\u2019s like the dress rehearsal.\u00a0 I have several weeks until the deadline, and I\u2019ll need the time to read as carefully as I intend to, hopefully twice.<\/p>\n

Though I\u2019ve reread parts of Prized<\/em> while I\u2019ve been working on Book 3, sometimes to check a detail and sometimes because I just like being with friends in favorite scenes there, I haven\u2019t read through the entire story since December, so I should have fresh eyes for the job.\u00a0 I\u2019ve never read the story on paper at all, and that makes it new for me, too.<\/p>\n

And so you find me today at the dining room table, armed with a new pen, and I\u2019ve started going through my first pass pages of Prized<\/em>.\u00a0\u00a0The first chapter looks clean to me, and I\u2019ve made only a few tiny changes, so I\u2019m optimistic this part of the process will go smoothly, especially since I’m eager to get back to revising Book 3.\u00a0 Nan and a proofreader are going through these pages, too, and between the three of us, here\u2019s hoping we catch anything monstrous.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After I finished going through the copyedits of Prized, I emailed the manuscript back to my editor Nancy Mercado at Roaring Brook in mid-December.\u00a0 The next step was a series of emails we had in early January, when Nan checked back with me about a few of my changes and other things she\u2019d noticed, like […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[68,17,37],"class_list":["post-821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous","tag-behind-the-scenes","tag-prized-2","tag-writing-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=821"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":922,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821\/revisions\/922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}