Third rev of cover, into full layout

Well, I now have a full set of printing bids. I have a third rev of the cover that is getting pretty close. A little more in the way of tweaks to the copy and I still need a final exact number for the spine width and for that I will need to finish layout to get the exact number of pages and then calculate it from the paper weight from the printer I choose.

The only other thing that would cause me to redo the cover at this point is if someone like Jamie Oliver or Alton Brown decided to do a nice quote about the book for the cover. Wishful thinking I'm afraid (which did NOT stop me from writing to them and asking, but no answer I'm afraid...)

I am very happy with the layout finally - it has been a very long time since I did layout for real (using Pagemaker aka Ragemaker at the time. But the skills came back and I managed to get everything to where I ma very happy with how it looks and reads.

I do have to get author approval for their little blurbs where I describe their sites. So that'll be heading out this week in emails.

I am also beginning to work on the website. So far all I have done is take the basic placeholder site and put it into clean CSS. Next I have to add newsletters and order forms and a lot more information and some nicer graphics and design.