quitter book update

The Quitter book is moving along, mostly as planned.

I have been spending a lot of time learning how to use Adobe InDesign CS3. I have been figuring out how to do the Quitter book layout on my own, but I’m finding that I might need to call in some outside help on this. I understand how it all works; it just isn’t working the way it is supposed to. I’m used to the old PageMaker platform that I have used since 1997. CS3 is really different in good and bad ways.

The good news is that Nathaniel sent me the final watercolor book cover. I am working with it in Photoshop in order to get all the publishers requirements met. The cover is amazing, but I won’t give away the details. It is exactly what I was looking for even though I provided no guidance. The first idea is usually the best idea…

The inside illustrations are a few weeks away from being finished and scanned. This pretty much means that the completed layout is about five weeks from completion. This assumes that I actually finish writing everything that needs to be written in that time frame. I read the guts of Quitter #5 aloud to Kristin a few nights ago. Traditionally this means one last edit before printing. Traditionally…

I’m getting close, and I can’t wait to actually hold the book in my hands.