# MTG Change Log — V70 to V76 *Session: 29 May 2026. Jose / Paul Roebuck.* *Source of truth for the V70→V76 cycle.* --- ## Summary Seven manuscript versions across one continuous session. Two days from V69 to V76. Net add to manuscript: +415 words. Significant: the Bill Ollis lived scene at V73, the documentary anchor at V74, and the title-page rebuild at V76. Companion documents also moved in this cycle: Front matter v1→v3, Back matter extras v1→v2, Canonical Lines Register v1.4→v1.5. --- ## Manuscript versions ### V70 — ISBN paperback + Stanford verify - **P1 from prior tracker:** Real Nielsen ISBN-13 978-1-0369-9170-8 swapped in for the mock ISBN on rear cover/copyright page. - **Stanford case (Chapter 8):** verified Kohls v. Ellison + Mata v. Avianca + Moffatt v. Air Canada citations against external sources. Where wording drifted, corrected against verified record. - **Mode:** continuance editing. No tracked changes carried in file. ### V71 — Contents bookmarks and hyperlinks - Contents page now has 15 chapter entries with hyperlinks/bookmarks (`ch_1` through `ch_15`). - Bowlby quote on title page (was on its own page in earlier versions). - 45,636 words. New clean baseline. - **Mode:** continuance editing. ### V72 — Footer navigation + Bowlby move - Added `Back to Contents` link to right side of footer on every page. Clickable in PDF. - New `contents` bookmark added to Contents heading (was missing). - Bowlby quote moved from title page back to its own page 2. - Paul P1 cosmetic tweak: spacing before Bowlby quote on title page. - **Mode:** tracked editing. Paul returned with all changes accepted. ### V73 — Two Dads insert (the major addition) - **Edit 1:** Chapter 3, line 505 — "Loss of my father at three" → "at five" (factual correction). - **Edit 2:** Chapter 14, line 2461 — trimmed "saying to a therapist: we don't talk about that" → "carried in the body for decades, waiting for a room where it could speak" (removes redundancy with new lived scene). - **Edit 3 (the major one):** Chapter 14, Two Dads section — replaced the vague bridge paragraph with the full Bill Ollis lived scene. ~310 words across 22 short paragraphs: - Bill Ollis named. - Three "earlier"s: Bill working Paul backwards from twenties to teens to single-digit years. - "We don't talk about that" — spoken by the inner child ten minutes into Paul's first counselling session. - Bill let it sit. Did not interpret. - At the end of the session, Bill handed Paul a piece of paper. Three words: *Not good enough. Here. Think about this. I did.* - Next-day sister verification: Paul rings sister (two years older), asks about James Wakefield, her exact words back: "we don't talk about that." - "Two children, two years apart, who I do not believe were ever told those words." — empirical evidence of CL-29 (all behaviour is learned, not all behaviour is taught). - Years of carrying the contradiction. Bill's three words alongside it. - Reframe in psychotherapy training — another trainee in a role-play: "I had two dads." - "Biblical, it was. Release and relief in the same breath." - Forty years close: "The three words on Bill's piece of paper have been running underneath the work ever since." - Net add: +336 words. - **Mode:** tracked editing. Paul returned with all changes accepted. ### V74 — Documentary anchor - Single tracked insertion in Chapter 14, between "Biblical, it was…" and the forty-years close: *"I wrote it down in my diploma notes in 2014. 'Noticing I have 2 Dads.' That was the form it took on the page."* - Anchors the recalled scene to the documentary record: Paul's own FETC Diploma workshop paper *The Whole Self* (June 2014), which contains the exact phrase "noticing I have 2 Dads" and references "I carry my dad2's values with me." - Net add: +24 words. - **Mode:** tracked editing. Paul returned with all changes accepted. ### V75 — Two small fixes (Dad / ChatGPT date) - **Edit 1:** Chapter 5, line 977 — "I lost my own father, Ian Roebuck" → "I lost my Dad, Ian Roebuck." Aligns register with Chapter 14's Two Dads framing. - **Edit 2:** Chapter 9, line 1653 — "I joined ChatGPT the week it launched in November 2022" → "eleven days after it launched, on Sunday 11 December 2022." Fixes internal conflict with Chapter 10's precise date. - **Dropped (on Jose's advice):** Two other corrections Paul proposed — *2015→2016* for opening the therapy room and *thirty-seven→thirty years* for commercial practice. Both would create internal contradictions with surrounding text (two Room headers, the *transition didn't begin in 2015* line). Paul accepted recommendation to leave the dates approximately as they are. - Net add: +2 words. - **Mode:** tracked editing. Paul returned with all changes accepted. ### V76 — Title page rebuild - Top spacing above MIND THE GAP reduced (visual layout, untracked). - Three blank spacing paragraphs after author name deleted (tracked). - New title page content added between Paul Roebuck and Bowlby quote: - **Credentials line:** *PGCEE · MNCS (Accred) · FETC (Ad.Dip)* (italic, mid-grey, middle dots). - **AI attribution** (three lines, italic, light grey): *Authored by Paul Roebuck. / Drafted in collaboration with Claude (Anthropic, Opus 4.7). / Images by ChatGPT (OpenAI, GPT-5.5).* - **Visual separator** (small gold dot). - **"Who is this book for?"** block — review-copy addition. Six paragraphs italic dark grey centred. Includes new line: *"This is not a book about AI. It is a book about behaviour."* - **Page break** — Bowlby quote moves to page 2 (alone). - Net add: +128 words (mostly the Who Is For block). - **Mode:** tracked editing + structural rebuild (title-page paragraph deletions + insertions). Paul returned with all changes accepted plus cosmetic adjustments: credentials line MNCS/FETC segments bolded; Bowlby quote on page 2 set to bold italic. --- ## Companion documents ### MTG_FrontMatter — v1 → v2 → v3 - **v2:** Added Bill Ollis acknowledgements block before Jean Bond's. Block opens with *"First, Bill Ollis."* / Jean's opener changed from *"First"* to *"Then"*. ~250 new words. Bill named as the first therapist Paul ever saw, August 2006, three months before Jean. The piece-of-paper origin of NGE explicitly named. Six paragraphs, ending *"Thank you, Bill."* - **v3:** Five small tracked edits — name corrections: - Ewan [name held] → Ewan **[name held]** - Martin [name held] → **Mark** [name held] - Dr. [name held] → **Mr** [name held] (UK surgical convention — three references) - **Status:** v3 approved by Paul. Ready for layout. ### MTG_BackMatter_Extras — v1 → v2 - Three small consistency tidies: - Line 159: "Paul's adoptive father Ian Roebuck" → "Paul's dad Ian Roebuck." Aligns with Chapter 14's register. - Line 259: Canonical lines count — appended *"At publication, thirty-seven."* to the V69→thirty-four sentence. - Line 503: "How to Write a Book in 36 Hours" → "Thirty-Six Hours" (title style consistency). - **Status:** v2 approved by Paul. ### MTG-Canonical-Lines-Register — v1.4 → v1.5 - **CL-35:** *"At the end of the session, Bill handed me a piece of paper. Three words on it. Not good enough. Here. Think about this. I did."* Origin of NGE framework. Chapter 14 V73. - **CL-36:** *"Two children, two years apart, who I do not believe were ever told those words. We had worked them out separately. Both of us. The same sentence. No one taught us. No one had to."* Lived evidence of CL-29. Chapter 14 V73. - **CL-37:** *"Biblical, it was. Release and relief in the same breath."* Reframe close. Chapter 14 V73. - **Total:** 37 lines locked at v1.5 (29 May 2026). ### MTG_Bibliography — v4 - No change this session. Stands as built last cycle. ### MTG_BackMatter (core) — v1 - No change this session. Stands as built last cycle. --- ## Decisions taken - **HTML artefact:** Paul confirmed Option C — ship thin print extras + HTML artefact alongside. Action deferred. Decision locked. - **June 2014 *The Whole Self* paper:** discovered mid-session. Held for HTML artefact placement. Not in printed book. V74 references it. - **Title page review-copy block:** *Who is this book for?* added at V76, marked review-only — to be removed before KDP upload. Credentials and AI attribution stay in production. - **The 2015 / thirty-seven figures in Chapters 9 and 11:** dropped from this cycle (would create internal contradictions). Approximation accepted. --- ## Workflow observations - **Mode discipline held throughout.** Tracked editing was the operating mode for V72 onwards. Mode named before each edit. No silent mode shifts. - **Hand-back protocol clean.** Paul accepted Jose's edits cleanly on V72, V73, V74, V75, V76. Each return verified against expected post-accept state. - **Cosmetic adjustments by Paul on V76** flagged on verification (credentials styling, Bowlby boldness) — observed, not corrected. --- ## Open items at session close 🟡 **HTML artefact build** — Option C committed; not yet started. Includes the four extras as built, plus the June 2014 *Whole Self* paper, the It's My Turn journal artefact (lyric copyright posture), and the working-method documents. 🟡 **Ebook ISBN** — Nielsen allocation pending. Holds copyright-page edit until allocated. 🟡 **Front matter v3 typographic** — five name fixes verified post-accept. File approved. Awaiting layout pass. 🟡 **Review copy V76** — ready as-is. Carries the *Who is this book for?* block. 🟢 **Structurally, the book is complete.** What remains: HTML artefact, layout, font selection, KDP upload mechanics. --- *Maintained by Paul Roebuck, in collaboration with Claude (Jose). End of V70-V76 cycle.*