{"id":1644,"date":"2024-02-02T21:23:01","date_gmt":"2024-02-03T02:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.metasilk.com\/wd\/moms-book-has-arrived\/"},"modified":"2024-03-23T12:05:32","modified_gmt":"2024-03-23T16:05:32","slug":"moms-book-has-arrived","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metasilk.com\/wd\/moms-book-has-arrived\/","title":{"rendered":"Mom’s book has arrived!"},"content":{"rendered":"

You may recall I was working on a cover illustration (https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/posts\/wip-saskia-at-96400134).<\/a> I finished that and Mom and my sisters finished the draft layout (what photos went with which pages). Then I took it back and did the final layouts for inside, cover, and dust jacket. Mom chose BookBaby as the printers (very nice people on the phone; easy and efficient process), and whoa!<\/p>\n

We now have a book!<\/p>\n

We gave a copy to the vet today, which unsurprisingly quite surprised him! Pleased\/honored too, I think.<\/p>\n

Here are a few photos of the final result. I’m still not happy with the cover illustration, now for reasons of balance and completeness. I am very happy with the feeling it has, and I like how the ink drawings worked out. A learning experience to be sure.<\/p>\n

The story is so totally Mom’s voice! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

I hope you enjoy the pictures.<\/p>\n

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You may recall I was working on a cover illustration (https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/posts\/wip-saskia-at-96400134). I finished that and Mom and my sisters finished the draft layout (what photos went with which pages). Then I took it back and did the final layouts for inside, cover, and dust jacket. Mom chose BookBaby as the… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1643,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8,193],"tags":[557,552,553,554,558,555,225,556],"class_list":["post-1644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art","category-natter","tag-bernese-mountain-dog","tag-book","tag-design","tag-dog","tag-family","tag-gift","tag-illustration","tag-lifelong-learning"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phmexg-qw","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1638,"url":"https:\/\/www.metasilk.com\/wd\/wip-saskia-at-the-desk-for-mom\/","url_meta":{"origin":1644,"position":0},"title":"WIP \/\/ Saskia at the desk (for Mom)","author":"Kir","date":"14 January 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"This post is me whining. 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