Children's Book Production Stages

Whether you are involved in children's book fundraising or publishing a children's book for yourself , here are the steps from completed manuscript to printed children's book.

Editing and illustration

1) Manuscript edit: Our editor thoroughly edits your completed manuscript (on-screen with changed tracked)

2) Author manuscript review: You review the printout of your edited manuscript, including all the editor’s questions, and write all changes directly on the printout

3) Final manuscript review: Our editor reviews your changes and incorporates them into the on-screen manuscript

4) Author final manuscript review: You review the printout of your final, edited manuscript and write any further changes directly on the printout, which are then input into the final, on-screen manuscript

5) Illustration planning and development: If you don't have an illustrator, we can coordinate the choosing of an illustrator and production of original illustrations

Design and typesetting

6) Design planning: We present you with sample designs for your cover and interior layout

7) Author design review: You review our sample designs, choose a cover and interior design, provide us with text for the back cover, and finalize all printing specifications

8) Design and typesetting production: We design your book cover, typeset the manuscript, and incorporate the illustrations

Proofreading and indexing

9) Author book review: You review a finished laid-out output of your book, with color proofs where required

10) Proofreading: Our proofreader proofreads your final, laid-out book.

11) Author sign-off: You review the final, laid-out book, and sign off on the book for print pre-production

Printing

12) Artwork preparation: We finalize and prepare all of your book’s artwork for press

13) Author printer proof review: You review all proofs, and sign off on the book for printing (note that any changes you make at this stage will be expensive)

14) Print production: Your book is printed

15) Book delivery: Your finished books are delivered to your specified shipping location(s)