Gallery

Behind the books

Desks, drafts, proof copies and quiet rooms.

The making of What Still Lingers Sample

What Still Lingers took four years, three notebooks and one very full box of photographs. Here is a little of how it came together, from the first scribbled lines to the proof copies.

A box overflowing with old photographs — Fig. 01Research for What Still Lingers

Pages of handwriting in a notebook beside reading glasses — Fig. 02First drafts are always in pencil

Hands writing in a notebook on a dark desk — Fig. 03Late-night revisions

A black typewriter on a dark surface — Fig. 04The old Olympia

Pages of an open book fanned out — Fig. 05Proof copies arrive

Three Ivy Writerly books standing together — Fig. 06The first three books

Someone reading a book by a window — Fig. 07Reading the proofs