NOTES FROM THE MARGINS

Each week I do volunteer work at a local cat rescue. Cleaning the cat rooms and socializing the cats is a great way to decompress after a stressful day at the office. When the other volunteers found out I was a book editor, they asked if I would help them make a book about the shelter. It was a project that had long been on their list to raise awareness of and fundraise for the shelter, but they didn’t know where to begin. When I said I’d help, the first thing I did was create a schedule for our process.

Although we are self-publishing the book, the schedule I created for our volunteer group was based entirely on the format