Mahanu🚧 Draft — not final. This page was auto-generated as day-one scaffolding for the project and still needs a human pass before it reads as finished. The blanks and placeholders below are intentional — someone who runs this project should fill them in and delete this notice.
Publishing playbook
The press-level checklist every book shares — the reason the illustrated-books project is a parent, not one big folder. Each book sub-project (parent: illustrated-books-93dabadd) runs its own copy of this pipeline with its own author, illustrator, and editor; this page is the master they all clone.
The pipeline (each book runs it end to end)
| Stage | What it needs | Done when |
|---|---|---|
| Manuscript | the written story, agreed | text locked for illustration |
| Edit | structural then line edit | editor signs off |
| Illustration | brief per spread, roughs → finals | all spreads final, consistent |
| Layout | text + art placed, typeset | print-ready spreads |
| vendor, paper, proof | proof approved | |
| Release | ISBN, listings, launch | on sale / in hands |
Print vendor notes (shared knowledge)
- Vendors & quotes: (who, price per unit at what run, turnaround)
- Paper choices: (what worked for the art; what looked cheap)
- What went wrong last time: (the mistakes worth not repeating — colour drift, gutter loss, thin cover stock)
Release checklist (the boring things that sink good books)
- ISBN registered
- Listings written (blurb, metadata, categories)
- Launch plan (where, when, who to tell)
- Author/illustrator credits correct everywhere