{"id":2374,"date":"2019-01-25T19:54:30","date_gmt":"2019-01-25T19:54:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/travelscribe.wordpress.com\/?p=2374"},"modified":"2019-01-25T19:54:30","modified_gmt":"2019-01-25T19:54:30","slug":"putting-it-to-bed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/legacy.travelscribe.org\/index.php\/2019\/01\/25\/putting-it-to-bed\/","title":{"rendered":"Putting it to bed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today is the day that my book, <em>The Country of Larks,<\/em> is off to the printer &#8211; also known in the publishing business as &#8216;putting it to bed&#8217;. This is my first &#8216;proper&#8217; book, so I didn&#8217;t know what to expect from the editing\/production process but the experience with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bradtguides.com\/\">Bradt<\/a> has been a positive one from beginning to end. I&#8217;ve been hugely impressed with the care they have taken over my book, from the design to the final edit. But I guess this is what you&#8217;d expect from a publishing house of 45 years standing.<\/p>\n<p>This week I also got to see the (almost) final version of the cover, with linocut by<a href=\"http:\/\/jamesgreenprintworks.blogspot.com\/\"> James Green Printworks<\/a> and design by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/pepi-bluck-18a27021\/\">Pepi Bluck of Perfect Picture<\/a> (who also typeset the book and designed the internal pages).\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/travelscribe.files.wordpress.com\/2019\/01\/bt-acol-cover-art-print-test.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Here&#8217;s a sneak preview.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is the day that my book, The Country of Larks, is off to the printer &#8211; also known in the publishing business as &#8216;putting it to bed&#8217;. This is my first &#8216;proper&#8217; book, so I didn&#8217;t know what to expect from the editing\/production process but the experience with Bradt has been a positive one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[8,9,10],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.travelscribe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2374"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.travelscribe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.travelscribe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.travelscribe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.travelscribe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.travelscribe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2374\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.travelscribe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.travelscribe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.travelscribe.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}