Proof back from Hignell’s today. It looks good, apart from two page numbers on one page, and a couple of minor things that aren’t worth changing.
Pretty fast turnaround - 5 days from when we couriered it from Vancouver to Winnipeg.
So, I no longer have to go to Kinko’s to print colour pages thanks to a smart investment in a colour printer. But I do need to print out hard copies of the cover, which needs a printer that’s bigger than the 8.5 X 14 max on my home printer.
So, off to Kinko’s I go. On Remembrance Day. Having first checked that they were open.
Kinko’s was indeed open. But (get this) does not have any Macs. It’s a PC-only world out there in Kinko-land, which I find unbelievable. Much stomping of feet did not miraculously produce a mac, so, being that the files I wanted to print were pdf, I went to the nearest PC. But it couldn’t read my zip/flash drive. I hate PCs. And now I hate Kinko’s.
But, as Ben says, the book is now off to the printers. (Hignell in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada - they’re fantastic!). On to the Rioja!
WOW we raced ahead and got the book off to the printers today! Done! Just like that! Boom. Off to the printers. Hopefully the printers will be able to read the files and we can sit back and wait for the book to be printed and delivered some time in Dec/Jan.
A great relief and now we can enjoy a glass of rioja or two.
We now have the final proof printed off and are checking it for errors. We may even have the whole thing finished today ready to go to the printers. Finally. So things look like they are all on course for a January release. Yeah we have almost done it.