Four more hours working on the photo credits and I have whittled it down from 3800 to 2400 words. Taking out the repetitive details seemed to be the easy part. Working it out so that it seemed intellectually logical, shall I say taxonomic, was the hard part. I still don’t know if I worked it out, but kept taking passes at the list to try to make it look the same. I set some rules for the entries, and then found that I had to break them on some instances. I learned many things in college, but creating a photo credits list wasn’t one of them! Also spent another four hours today going through the color printout looking for edits. All combined, Jennifer and I found about 67 for Justine to tackle this week. Most are for continuity (rectifying the TOC), a few photo edits came up, and lots of periods went missing in the Endnotes. The largest revision will be spreading the Chronology across two two-page spreads instead of four single pages. Justine is going to have to move all the text boxes to facilitate this, but Jennifer and I both think it’ll make her design look even better. My eyes are going blurry from staring at so much text today, so this is it for now. Hope to take a few more passes tomorrow and get this all out the door to get the final rev of the book. Then its off to press.
The Sun Ra Ship is Leaving this Planet!