{"id":53,"date":"2026-10-31T14:20:20","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T14:20:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demos.wpruby.com\/foliowick-press\/how-a-book-is-made-here\/"},"modified":"2026-11-03T14:22:04","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T14:22:04","slug":"how-a-book-is-made-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demos.wpruby.com\/foliowick-press\/how-a-book-is-made-here\/","title":{"rendered":"How a Book Is Made Here"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We publish eight to ten books a year, which means every one of them gets the full attention of everyone here. This is roughly how it goes.<\/p><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Reading and editing<\/h2><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A manuscript is read by at least two of us before we say yes. Then come two or three rounds of structural edits with the author, followed by a line edit and a copy-edit.<\/p><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Design and printing<\/h2><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Each series has its own cover design, so a Halyard book is recognisable across a room. We choose the paper and typeface for each title, and every hardback is bound in cloth.<\/p><blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We would rather publish fewer books and stand behind every one of them.<\/p><\/blockquote><p class=\"fo-demo-note wp-block-paragraph\"><em>A demo article for the Foliowick theme. The press, its authors and its books are fictional.<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the first manuscript to the finished copy: the eighteen months between a yes and a book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":54,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-from-the-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demos.wpruby.com\/foliowick-press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demos.wpruby.com\/foliowick-press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demos.wpruby.com\/foliowick-press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.wpruby.com\/foliowick-press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.wpruby.com\/foliowick-press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/demos.wpruby.com\/foliowick-press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71,"href":"https:\/\/demos.wpruby.com\/foliowick-press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions\/71"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.wpruby.com\/foliowick-press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demos.wpruby.com\/foliowick-press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.wpruby.com\/foliowick-press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.wpruby.com\/foliowick-press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}