Talked to Marlowe, my production editor. Here’s the roadmap:

We do copyediting in Word – revision marks. I get a bunch of chapters at a time, and approve changes / make edits. It’s a slow boring, tedious process. But at least I’m involved and Marlowe is cool.

Then we do QC1 – quality check 1. The book is printed, based on revisions, on regular paper. Figures are put in. Index appears. All sorts of other little things get done. I review QC1 and mark up changes/corrections on paper.

QC2 – same thing, only we’re really close.

Go to printer – the master template of the book goes to printer, and the rest is history.