Five drafts and untold number of hours later, I’ve finished the InDepthInfo History of Modern Europe. I have sent it to my editor for one last run-through. Yes, I am fortunate enough to have an editor. She comes in the form of my mother-in-law who was a grade school teacher for thirty some odd years. She is a superb grammarian and will root out whatever mistakes are left in the book.
I completed the cover work yesterday. What a chore. As noted in my previous post, whenever you publish a book, everything has to be done meticulously. Once done, there is seldom a possibility to go back an change things. Wait, with on demand publishing it can be done, it’s just a pain in the neck and all the older volumes will still have the old mistake in them. I suppose we could start labeling books with version numbers the way they do with computers. Imagine, “Huckelberry Finn 1.4″.
My editor should have the marked up edition back to me in a week or two. Then it is on to publishing and marketing.
