After clarification yesterday, I learned that it was not the Title Page, (which I was erroneously calling the "header page") my publisher was talking about, it's the header on the top of the page she wanted to remove from the beginning pages. When she first mentioned it, I mistakenly thought she was talking about the "Title Page," which in Melange Books is the very first page of the book. But no. It's the headers at the very top, where on one page it says the name of the book, and on the opposite page its the author's name. On the first few pages, that's not supposed to be there, and that's all she was saying.
When I checked my other book, The Vase, published by Penumbra, it's the way they had it, so yeah, Nancy's right about that, and I'm glad I asked for clarification. So I'm glad that the title page is still going to be there.
All is all, it's an opportunity to point out a couple good things about Melange. They strive to get things right, and they have respect for their authors, in this case, running it by me first when they wanted to change a format, even when it was a relatively minor thing, like in this instance. So kudos to Melange for that.
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