By Marsha Hall, PPS Project Manager
At Progressive Publishing Services, our project managers nurture your project from concept to completion. Whether you’re interested in full-service publishing, book publishing services, publishing project management, or e-book publishing, our professional staff focus on your project, working one-on-one with you, your authors, editors, art departments, publishers, indexers, composition groups, and printers. It’s our task and pleasure to work with all the people involved in the process of getting a book through publication from manuscript development to final book production. Our project manager will shepherd as many of those tasks as you wish—and you don’t have to.
Let’s take a closer look at the tasks a project manager oversees so that you can relax, knowing that someone else “has this.”
Manuscript Development
Our project manager can work with your developmental editors, authors, art departments, and marketing staff during the initial manuscript creation stage. Our project manager will be with you in as many capacities of manuscript development as are needed for the project. Our project manager can also provide editors, copyeditors, artists, and compositors to fulfill creation needs.
Production
Our project managers can work with your production department or can work with our own to meet the production tasks such as composition, art, copyediting, and proofreading.
Indexing
Our project manager can collaborate with a professional indexer to create your desired index. Our company is experienced with the various levels of indexes (simple, medium, complex) and categories (name, subject, combination name and subject, table of cases, run-in vs indented), and more.
Post-Production
Our project managers see that printer-ready copy is created, reviewed, and prepped for your desired printer. Our editors will review the printer-ready PDFs and printer proofs and ensure that the final product is ready for print.
Behind the Scenes
We’ve listed the tasks that go into project management, but what else can we do for you? The project manager keeps track of the budget and the schedule, making sure the project comes through on time and on budget. You will be provided with weekly status reports to prevent any sudden surprises at the end of the project. The project manager will also keep in contact with the authors, editors, and other production staff involved in the project.
Who to Contact
Need more information? We’d love to hear from you and discuss how we can help. You can reach us at the following:
Progressive Publishing Services
Ryan Run Rd. Suite B
York, PA 17404
Phone: 717-764-5908
Email: info@pps-ace.com