The Project
Book editing typically happens in private, before the public has a chance to buy copies. Drafts, emails, edit letters, discarded chapters, alternate storylines—all these and more are usually just deleted. But these are important parts of the book’s backstory.
Our Mission
We’re launching our own publishing group, Road Trip Press, to publish a book so we can document the editorial process in real time.
If you’re wondering what this might look like, you might check on NPR’s Planet Money podcast, and their projects to publish a song and make a T-shirt (and study the industries along the way).
In our case, we’ll be publishing a first edition in both a traditional paperback (for sale) and an open-access ePub (for free download, along with all the support files along the way). If funding continues for a future year, we also hope to produce a limited run of artist’s editions.