Cookbook Production Stages

Whether you are involved in cookbook fundraising for a non-profit organization, or a chef putting together a restaurant cookbook, here are the cookbook production steps from completed manuscript to printed cookbook.

Editing

1) Manuscript edit: Our editor thoroughly edits your completed manuscript

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 manuscript

4) Author final manuscript review: You review the printout of your final, edited manuscript and write any further changes directly on the printout

Design and typesetting

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

6) 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

7) Design and typesetting production: We design your book cover, typeset the manuscript, and coordinate any photography or illustration

Proofreading and indexing

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

9) Proofreading and indexing: Our editor proofreads your final, laid-out book, and our indexer
creates an index of recipes

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

Printing

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

12) 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)

13) Print production: Your book is printed

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