At the moment, The Ninth Day project manager team is waiting for work to come back from the departments. Bits of the project are being worked on in almost every group: Editing finished typecoding the manuscript and will be receiving back cover copy to edit any day now; Design is working on the back cover […]
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Here and There
By Kelsey YocumThis past week has truly been a mix of tasks. The big one for us was wrangling the schedule—it is our job to keep track of all the balls in the air in all the different departments. Though we want to keep our major due dates intact, the intermediate ones often have to shift slightly […]
Beyond Start to Finish
By Ooligan PressInterview with Eliot Treichel by Miranda Rabuck Ooligan’s innovative Start to Finish pages, which document a book’s progress from its acquisition to its launch, are valuable to our authors because they give them a behind-the-scenes look at the development of their books. Since many authors think of their books as their babies, the blogging that […]
Sales Kits for Everyone!
By McKenzie Workman
For the past week, while the editing department copyedited the final manuscript, Kelsey and I worked on Sales Kits. For those of you who are quietly scratching your heads and wondering why I am capitalizing such simple words…I was once you. If you had asked me a month ago what Sales Kits were, I would […]
Cover Votes and Conference Calls
By Kelsey YocumThis week has been a busy one for The Ninth Day; we had our all-press cover vote on Monday! But…we can’t show you the cover yet. I know, I know, I’m sorry. It was voted in more as a concept rather than as a final product, so we will wait to unveil it until it’s […]
Tip Sheet Love
By Rachel PassTo those outside of publishing, a tip sheet might not sound like an exciting thing. But to a book project manager who is waiting to see her pet project in print, a tip sheet is something to love. It’s almost like an ultrasound image of an unborn baby; you can look at it and count […]