Now the text of my book leaves the land of Microsoft Word and goes to the layout people. It's their job to position the text properly on the page. It's now set up to be put in a book and is a PDF file. Even numbered pages will be laid out differently than the odd numbered one.
At this point our only job is to look for errors that hadn't been fixed before. My copy-editor carefully goes through the whole thing and makes a list of 10 changes. We then made a list (in MS Word) of the priority of the changes 1. 2. 3. in order of importance. They gave us lengthy instructions on how to request changes. We had to specify the paragraph and which sentence. Change "old sentence" to "new sentence." It's a very careful, exacting process and I'm glad that we didn't have a lot of changes.
Remarkably the turn around was minutes and I have a full PDF copy of the book to be.
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