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From CAG perspective, all of the articles have been approved and passed to copyeditors/production, aside from El Directo's and Papess's articles which required a few revisions. I gave a deadline of 2-3 weeks, about 2 weeks ago. If these revisions could be made and final edits submitted to CAG by the end of February that would be great.
The main production issue that I can see at the moment though, is that I have lost track of where the various completed and accepted articles are in the production pipeline. Quantum and XK have both suggested that they have this information and would be able to produce a spreadsheet showing at which stage each of the articles are at, but I haven't received this yet.
What I need to move this forward is:
1. Spreadsheet showing where all of the features are in the production pipeline.
2. A list of everyone who still wants to be involved in the copyediting and layout roles of this project.
3. Contact details for and regular updates from whoever is managing the copyediting and layout processes.
4. Assurance that all copyeditors are working from the same style guide.
5. Technical information on what the finished pages are being produced in (i.e, Quark, Indesign, etc)
If it transpires that people originally on-board for copyediting and proofreading have now dropped off the map, and we are under-resourced to turn this around, then we may need a new recruitment drive for these roles. Copyediting shouldn't be too onerous, as anything that has passed through me should have already been subedited for basic typos and grammaticals, so those roles should mostly be about stylistic consistency.
Design and layout is something I'm a bit more troubled by, as I haven't really had any contact with whoever is dealing with this important stage, and I'm not sure what the score is. If someone is indeed still taking responsibility for this side of the production, please speak up here, because we're going to need to be in regular contact as this moves forward out of the commissioning/editing process and into the layout/proofing stage.
In an absolute worst case scenario, I could lay the thing out myself on Indesign, but I'd really, really, really prefer not to have to do that.
Sorry this project is taking so long to come to fruition - I've been a bit snowed under with other stuff and I'm having to balance it alongside various other projects. |
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(Actually I'd personally go for English because I am English and find the American spellings uglier... even though I get confused and end up using them half the time, but I accept that American spellings might be more appropriate.)