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See upcoming webinarsNot testimonials. Case studies — the structural problem an editor found, the eleven weeks of rewriting, the three proof rounds it took to get the blacks right.
Two years of agent rejections, a manuscript with a sagging middle, and the decision to set up book one as though there would be a book four.
Nadia Brennan · The Harbour Line · 6 min read
A kindergarten teacher with 780 words, no illustrator, and no idea that the storyboard was where the book would actually be made.
Marisol Vega · The Dark Is Just a Room · 5 min read
Four years of shooting, then three proof rounds and a paper change to make the blacks behave.
Hana Lindqvist · The Three O'Clock Boats · 7 min read
A manuscript thirty per cent too long, a fixed conference date, and a schedule planned backwards from it.
Desmond Achebe · Decision Debt · 5 min read
The copyedit was the part I resented paying for and the part that changed the book most. I got the manuscript back with about nine hundred tracked changes and a letter explaining the four habits behind most of them. I have not made those four mistakes since.
I had a keynote date and a manuscript that was thirty per cent too long. They planned backwards from the date, told me in month two which chapters had to go, and hit it. The honesty about what would not fit was worth more than the encouragement.
Nobody had explained the storyboard stage to me. I thought illustration meant sending a manuscript and getting pictures back. Sitting down and deciding where every page turn fell was when the book actually became a book.
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