Publishing

Copy edit phase starts this week with two chapters (Ch 1 and 4). The chapters that resulted from developmental editing have been converted to a new style regime, and are now ODT instead of DOCX format. Each chapter arrives with edits and comments from the copy editor.

Perhaps it was due to poor grades in Art class back in my school days, but I quickly realized that the sketches I did for graphics in the book we not going to be up to par. Having never worked with a pro, I didn’t invest a lot of time as the drawings were not getting better it seemed, and when production began the publisher sent them to a pro to fix up.

The section of the book on SQL injection needs to illustrate how an attack string gets inserted into a text string representing a SQL statement with unexpected results. The standard way of highlighting a part of a string available was to use bold like this: