I hated doing castoffs. I always had long, long, academic manuscripts to deal with that had footnotes and bibliographies. Those were always in a different type size than the rest of the manuscript. We picked three pages per chapter, counted three representative lines, and did this for the whole manuscript.
The positive thing was that we usually used the same typeface, so I was able to plug all my precious little numbers into a spreadsheet that Production provided to us. Bing! Insta-page length estimate.
I was usually over on my castoffs, but having a book come in short wasn't a bad thing for us. I'd much rather be over, and have the bottom line improve, than be under, and have people yell at me about how the bottom line was disappearing.
Bah. Castoffs. Something I'd forgotten about having to do!
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and did this for the whole manuscript.
The positive thing was that we usually used the same typeface, so I was able to plug all my
precious little numbers into a spreadsheet that Production provided to us. Bing! Insta-page length estimate.
I was usually over on my castoffs, but having a book come in short wasn't a bad thing for us. I'd much rather be over, and have the bottom line improve, than be under, and have
people yell at me about how the bottom line was disappearing.
Bah. Castoffs. Something I'd forgotten about having to do!