In the last week, we've finished 99.999% of the editing and 98% of the design of the book. We spent Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday last week shooting several rounds of emails back and forth, coordinating editorial changes. Going through this phase with Kuhaku, we only used email to coordinate. This time, in an attempt to bring some organization among four editors and a designer, I set us up with a Basecamp account. We've been using their messaging system to handle the input and discussion surrounding the edits. It's not a perfect solution but it allows us to keep pdf comps, edits, discussions and to-do lists all in one place.

Amidst inputting these edits, working on the New Orleans map and performing final cleanups on the design, I also moved. Eight hours of packing on Sunday. Contract signing on Monday. Movers come Tuesday. Turn on gas, electric, etc., on Tuesday afternoon and install Internet on Wednesday. By Thursday I was working again. This was probably my quickest move ever.

The roadmap was to finish the book before the move — and we almost did — but with one change leading to another and our masochistic knack for taking on laborious acts of research in the name of art, I *just* missed our Monday deadline. Not a big deal because we were still waiting for the final quote from the printers!

The main bits left to deal with design-wise are:

- Insert cover into a template for the printers. You need to make sure the cover art lines up with where the font, spine and back of the book cover will be printed. The whole "cover" is printed from a single file. Since we're doing foil stamping on all pieces I have to make sure everything is in tip-top shape before submitting the final file.