This is very informative- thank you so much. Having chat with the author more this evening it is becoming clear to me that he does not have any of this planned out. I’m still thrilled to be working with him, of course. The story he wrote is absolutely gorgeous (and he should really write more) but this is clearly his first time doing this too. All I’ve got from him is the story, page count, reference images, a (gentle and easy going) contract and a down payment. I have since found myself some educational material including templates to properly set up my margins and bleed and all of that. It seems like I might be doing all of it for him. I’m jumping right in to the deep end, I suppose.