Ten things I’ve learnt about making a book: a journey from computer file to warehouse
Picador author Sarah Butler visited Mackays printers to see her debut novel Ten Things I've Learnt About Love make the journey from file to book.
Picador author Sarah Butler visited Mackays printers to see her debut novel Ten Things I've Learnt About Love make the journey from file to book.
On 19th December 2012 I was lucky enough to visit Mackays printing factory (part of the CPI group), to see my debut novel Ten Things I've Learnt About Love come off the press.
It was an amazing day, and I'll be blogging about the creation of the hardback copy of Ten Things in the next couple of weeks. I also got a tour of the factory while the paperback of Rachel Joyce's The Unlikely Pilgrimage Of Harold Fry was being printed. It was fascinating to find out what goes into making a physical book….
Here are ten moments in that journey from computer file to finished book.
1. The computer files are checked to make sure everything's in order and are then laid out (using a clever piece of software) in 48-page sections, which, when cut and folded, will ensure every page is in the right place...
Read about the other nine things Sarah learnt on her blog
Ten Things I've Learnt About Love
by Sarah Butler
Alice is back in the family house that has never felt like home, waiting out the last few days of her father's life and yearning to escape. Across the city, a homeless man named Daniel searches for the daughter he has always loved but never met.
Connected by a secret, Alice and Daniel are about to cross paths in unexpected and life-changing ways . . .
Alice has just returned to London from months of travelling abroad. She is late to hear the news that her father is dying, and arrives at the family home only just in time to say goodbye. Daniel hasn't had a roof over his head for years, but to him the city of London feels like home in a way that no bricks and mortar ever did. He spends every day searching for his daughter; the daughter he has never met. Until now . . . Heart-wrenching and life-affirming, Ten Things I've Learnt About Love is a unique story of love lost and found, of rootlessness and homecoming and the power of the ties that bind. It is a story for fathers and daughters everywhere from debut novelist, Sarah Butler.