A book is born

Writing ...July 2007 032    ... and writing ... DSCN0318... and writing ...Until – four years later – there is somehow a manuscript. Then editing and editing and editing ... until the final thesis is submittedIMG_0292

In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements forThe MFA in Creative Writing & Publishing Arts

     Then it's the design and layout, and those endless InDesign possibilities.Screen Shot 2014-05-08 at 7.19.00 PMUntil it's time to send it off to the printer ... and wait for the proofs to come.IMG_0320 IMG_0321 IMG_0323The painstaking line editing, in the full knowledge that there's no going back after this and, finally, the anxiety inducing signature of the proof approval and the authorization to print.Proof approval form

Then wait...

Until, one day, this arrives on the front porch.IMG_0337 IMG_0338

But Wait!

That's not the end. Fifteen books will have a hand made element.IMG_0324This is what 180 photographs look like – 15 x 12.12 photographs must be hand cut, and affixed with 720 photograph corners into 15 books ... before it's done.Beyond the Baobab front cover final 

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