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The experience of creating a Locket Book
The experience of creating a Locket Book
Choosing to write your memoir with Locket Books starts a close collaboration lasting between 12 and 16 weeks, depending on the pace you wish to take.
I hope that the experience of creating your book will give as much pleasure as the book itself.
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Planning
I begin by getting to know you over the phone, talking through what you would like to include in your book.
To gain a deeper understanding of the most important people, places and experiences in the period you wish to record, I send you a questionnaire. Consider it an aide memoire for your memoir - as we will call to talk through your answers.
Gathering together all the research, we plan and agree the three interviews.
The interviews
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I call them interviews but the sessions are very relaxed and informal – more like chats, that happen to be recorded.
They are usually organised into three visits, each two hours long, but this is flexible according to your needs.
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Photographs
If you are within our area, I offer an additional service to digitalise your photos and images in your home. I capture high resolution scans, optimised for print.
If you are supplying your own digital photos, I can arrange a simple way of transferring your files.
Writing your memoir
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Hours of informal conversation are then transformed into a flowing first-person memoir. You can expect to receive your first draft approximately three weeks after the interviews end.
I will talk through all the changes you require and incorporate them into a second draft. There is an opportunity to request further changes to the second draft, before signing off the text.
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Design
The manuscript will be typeset by my designer and your photographs will be interleaved throughout the text.
Whilst that is underway, we will have a chat about the cover design and you will be given several ideas to choose from.
Proof reading
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All manuscripts are reviewed by a freelance proofreader. After weeks of working so closely on your story, it's essential that the text is given a final check by an editor with a fresh pair of eyes.
Finally, you will be a sent an A4 printed proof of your designed book and book cover for sign-off.
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Printing
Locket Books are printed by a small British digital printing firm in Gloucestershire.