Since about October, I’ve been working on a new crochet book. On Tuesday, May 10, I mailed off the last package of samples, and emailed the last bit of text. What a relief!

Now it’s the publisher’s turn. The folks at Lark Crafts will photograph the samples and projects, edit the text, and lay it all out very beautifully.

Sometime in late summer I get to proofread the lasers. They used to be called galley proofs, when the text was all set by a typesetter. Nowadays everything is done on computers by experts at layout and design, and we get lasers instead of galleys.

The book will probably be available for prepublication ordering online early next year. About a year from now, we’ll find it at fine bookstores everywhere. It’s a lot of waiting. But so exciting!