Buckerfield: The Story of a Vancouver Family
Mary Buckerfield White with Philip Sherwood. 2011. 8 x 10 inches, 334 pages, index, casebound. 300+ images. Book and cover design William Glasgow. Printed by Friesens, ISBN 978-0-9877491-0-9. 1000 copies
Lifewriters.ca managed this project from concept to publication. Our services included:
- managing the project. Developmental and structural editing
- conducting twelve hours of audio-recorded interviews with Mrs. White
- selecting material from family archives
- selecting images from municipal archives and obtaining permissions and licensing
- research to provide social and cultural context
- transcribing interview recordings and data entry of archival material
- crafting the interview transcripts, existing written material, and archival excerpts into an engaging narrative told in the first person. Ghostwriting
- obtaining permissions and licensing for news reprints and other copyrighted material
- liaising with an archival assistant
- writing back cover copy, preface, and acknowledgements
- helping choose images and write captions
- fact-checking, copyediting, and proofreading
- designing the book and covers
- taking the author’s back cover photo
- creating an index
- obtaining an ISBN
- contracting and liaising with a printer on behalf of the client
- creating a promotional poster
