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Putting it all together

Readers who have been following the Tantamount blog for a while will already have heard of Waverley – the small cat with the big miaow.

Waverley was a small cat with a big miaow

Waverley was a small cat with a big miaow…

We’ve been working over the last few months with author, David Aston, illustrator, Martin Jones, and narrator Alex Owen-Hill to get together all the various pieces of this delightful children’s book.

Now Tantamount’s design team are busy working to combine these elements into the different formats so you can read – and listen to – “The Cat’s Miaow” on tablets, iPads, smart phones, and eReaders.

We’ll be bringing out the different versions of enhanced ebook and app as soon as they are ready, but for now here’s the first official colour picture of Waverley outside the house at number 10, Marten’s Drive, where he lives with Mr and Mrs Turner and their son, Jonathan.

New formats; novel writing

All across the world, writers are struggling to finish their novels this month. Well, that’s probably true every month, but November is NaNoWriMo – National Novel Writing Month, the time when novelists and would-be novelists attempt to complete the first draft of a 50,000-word book in 30 days.

Traditionally, the number of pages in a book was closely related to the print production process (see our recent blog post The way things were). A large sheet of paper was printed on both sides and then folded in half and half again until the actual page size was reached; the folded sheet was then stitched along the hinge to form a set of four, eight, sixteen etc. pages, depending on how many times it had been folded. The whole system was mechanised and a book was made up of a number of these folded sheets, which clearly affected the total number of pages. As production methods changed, and pages were pasted rather than stitched to the spine, it became easier for printed books to be just as long, or as short, as they needed to be.
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