Since my last update on this book project more than a month ago, many things have been going on in the background. Comparing the laid-out text against my edited draft has been one of them and I have subjected this to two full rounds of checking. It has been a tedious and most exhausting task. No doubt, there'll surely be one or two mistakes that are bound to be detected before the book goes out to the printers. Together with the checking, there have also been some minor edits made.
My publisher and editor are also going through the book with a fine toothcomb. My editor, especially, has the unenviable task of preparing the Index section of the book. I had thought this would be easy but it isn't. Firstly, you have to extract all the possible words for the Index and then decide whether each one would be relevant for inclusion. After that, fill in the page numbers where the word appears in the book. Again, this is another meticulous task.
But certainly, we are marching right towards the end of the tunnel. We shall get there soon. Final piece of the jigsaw: awaiting the design of the book cover from New York and hopefully, by the end of the week, the layout artist will be able to piece everything together.
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