Categories:

  1. Feedback
    1. O'Reilly Content Review? Not needed.
    2. Copy Edit? After delivery.
    3. Glossary? Online!
    4. Index terms? Only the most important.
    5. Preface? Do last! Explain the book's structure and how to read it, Like rewriting the proposal. Make it personal. Look at Bill's book.
  2. Illustrations
    1. in all forms, languages, and media
    2. they redraw everything… need to communicate critical figures at delivery
  3. Required Formatting
  4. Structural Changes
    1. Add figures to break long text sections?
    2. Move Chapter 3? Yes.

Steps

  1. Delivery
    1. Copy Edit & Conversion
    2. Art Redo/review
    3. First edits after 2-3 weeks.
  2. QC1
  3. QC2 (in house)
    1. Index & Cover
  4. Publish