704 pages and counting...

lunde

lunde

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My wife and daughter have been in Japan since the end of June. I have been using the time alone to focus on the revision of a book, and am set to deliver its twelve revised chapters to my publisher on August 1st. I am 704 pages of content that is fully-typeset in InDesign CS3. Here is the First Edition web page: http://oreilly.com/catalog/9781565922242/

The chapters were 545 pages in First Edition, so there is a 150-page or so increase. Second Edition is expected to be published by the end of the year. It has been a dark cloud hanging over me for the past year. I started the revision on 08/05/2007.
 
Thanks a lot, Ken! I just read the description of your book to my wife and now she has a headache... :grumpy:

Seriously, that's amazing. Good luck on the finish! :thumbup:
 
Your finished:confused:...I was going to help you out on those last few chapters, but it looks like my help won't be need'ed.

I knew you could do it without me:thumbup:






:p I didn't even bother to open the link because I knew it would be WAY over my head.

Congrats Ken:thumbup:
 
The funny thing is that I have absolutely no Chinese, Japanese, Korean, nor Vietnamese DNA. I guess the "V" of CJKV could stand for Viking, because that is my heritage.
 
I haven't had time to fully read this book or the intro but does i'm hoping for some ninja/samurai/shaolin cross border epic story. Something like Shogun meets Hero or Seven Swords?

Only kidding I read the info on it and as someone that can barely use photochop I bow to your knowledge on this stuff. It's all way above my head.
 
Well, I'll admit I know exactly what you're feeling. I've been there, too.

But let me just say this: the feeling when it is over and gone ... priceless!! :thumbup::D:thumbup:
 
Congrats on getin'er done!!! :thumbup: :thumbup:

A couple of 5 star review to go with it too! :cool:


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Whew! I just provided the twelve chapters, along with three appendixes, to my publisher in PDF, suitable for technical review. The twelve chapters proper came to 712 pages (compared to 545 pages in First Edition). With the title pages, TOC, and appendixes that I included, they received 770 pages in total. The final page count, after I add the rest of the front matter, Appendix D (Glossary), Bibliography, index, and Colophon, will be between 850 and 900 pages.

This is effectively the third book I have written. I have been at this one for a year. I officially started the revision on 08/05/2007.
 
It's not finished quite yet. The following steps are remaining:

1) Technical review, meaning that I need to incorporate suggestions and changes from reviewers.

2) Complete Appendix D, the Bibliography, the front matter, the Colophon, and build the index. The index is the majority of this work.

3) The publisher copy-edits the book, which is effectively a fine-tooth comb through the entire book, looking for typos, grammar errors, and any typesetting inconsistencies.

4) I incorporate any changes from the copy edit, rebuild the TOC and index, then create the final PDF.
 
lunde said:
It's not finished quite yet. The following steps are remaining:

1) Technical review, meaning that I need to incorporate suggestions and changes from reviewers.

2) Complete Appendix D, the Bibliography, the front matter, the Colophon, and build the index. The index is the majority of this work.

3) The publisher copy-edits the book, which is effectively a fine-tooth comb through the entire book, looking for typos, grammar errors, and any typesetting inconsistencies.

4) I incorporate any changes from the copy edit, rebuild the TOC and index, then create the final PDF.
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I have my latest in for final copy-editing right now. But at least the bulk of the work is done.

Time for a Ganzaa :-)

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Update. I am at exactly 850 pages right now, and this does not include the index, which is likely to be about thirty or forty pages. I also am in the process of incorporating comments from he technical review, which is likely to result in about ten more pages of content. I finished going through the first third of the technical review comments last weekend, and the book grew four pages as a result. I need to provide final draft to O'Reilly by the end of the month, so that the book can go through copyediting.

Anyway, O'Reilly put up the page for Second Edition exactly one week ago. See: http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596514471/

I hope to have it out of my hands, meaning being printed, by Thanksgiving.
 
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