As I said, there were many, many steps which we did entirely in the wrong chronological order and had to go back three steps and so on. My husband kept telling me. Well, the publisher does what he calls the blue-line. That means big photo plates in blue-line of all the paginated pages, in the correct order to print both sides of a page. Front and back cover details are on a special hard disk cartridge.
Most small publishers send books out for printing and binding to a big conglomerate printing house.
My publisher had one he used and said the actual printing and shipping time would be 3 weeks. One day he called telling me a few samples had arrived. Well, when he handed me the first copy of Skinny Scotty I almost fainted. It completely took my breath away to be actually holding my own book, my mothers incredible story. The driver takes out a fork-lift and unloads thousands of books, all in neat boxes, into your garage.