How a Both Homes Press Book Is Verified
A script book makes a quiet promise: you can send this. That promise is only worth anything if the material behind it was built carefully. This post describes, in plain terms, how a Both Homes Press book is made and checked — the same process described in our Editorial Standards, which govern everything we publish.
It starts with real messages
Our scenarios come from the messages parents actually receive: the late pickup, the ambush bill, the holiday renegotiation, the wall of text at 2 a.m. We do not invent problems to fill a chapter, and we do not dramatize. If a scenario is in the book, it is there because readers wrote to say it happened to them, or because it recurs so reliably in co-parenting life that leaving it out would be the stranger choice.
Every fact is checked against its owner
Some of what our books carry is factual — most importantly the safety and support resources in our safety chapters and on the author's site. Each one is checked against the organization's own website or the official government listing before publication: the name, the number, the web address, and what the service actually does. Those resources are then re-checked quarterly, and immediately whenever a reader reports a problem. Every resource listing carries the date it was last verified. A wrong hotline number is not a typo; it is a failure at the exact moment a reader can least afford one, and we treat it that way.
The words are reviewed by a person, every page
Both Homes Press uses AI tools to assist with drafting, outlining, and editing. We say so openly — here, in our Editorial Standards, and in the disclosure Amazon asks for at publication — because readers are entitled to know how a book was made. What we never do is publish text as it came out of a tool. The scenarios, the scripts, and the judgments are set by the author and editor, and a person reviews every page before publication and again whenever it changes. The scripts in particular are read the way a tired parent would send them at midnight: short, neutral, one topic, nothing in them that reads worse in a courtroom than it felt in the kitchen.
The boundaries are checked too
Our books are general information. Before publication, each manuscript is read against that line: no legal advice, no therapeutic claims, no outcome promises. Where a reader's real situation needs a professional — a custody question, a safety emergency — the book says so and points to the right door. A tool that pretends to be more than a tool helps no one.
When we get something wrong
We correct it. Errors are fixed on the page or in the next printing, and every correction is entered in the public corrections log on our Editorial Standards page: the date, what changed, and why. Entries are never removed. If you spot something — a dead link, a changed phone number, a claim you believe is wrong — the contact form has a reason called "A correction," and reports from readers are one of the ways the quarterly checks get their leads.
That is the whole system: real problems, checked facts, reviewed words, stated boundaries, public corrections. It is not fast, and it is not meant to be. It is meant to make the promise true — you can send this.