Currently Working On...

Received the text for Bill Gibbons' mokele-mbembe book. Doing the final edit now, then layout when I receive the images. This will have details on several of the most recent expeditions, adventure-travelogue style. Some interesting nuggets... plenty of eyewitness sightings by Congo and Cameroonian folk...

Received the text for Raptors of the Northeast, by Dwight Smith and Thomas Bosakowski. This will be a small-format full color guide. Will be editing that soon; slides have been sent out for scanning, and need to locate some additional images, but this shouldn't take too long to put out.

Still working on Varmints, lots left to do, but it's coming together. (Biggest problem is my part-time job schedule is taking up too much time this month, as I cover for vacationers.)

John Silence (Algernon Blackwood)

I always wished Blackwood had done more John Silence stories. In any case, this is a collection of the six (often lengthy) stories he wrote. Sent to the publisher, available soon. It is priced competitively with the old Dover edition.

Ancient and Medieval Dyes

Sent to the printer. A brief but informative and easy-to-read text on the various animal and vegetable dyes used before modern chemical synthetic dyes.

Darby O'Gill

The two-book compilation in one volume: The Adventures of Darby O'Gill ..., sent to the printer. These are great stories, though most are written in Irish tongue, so take a little getting use to.

Chesterton Vols. 4-6

Sent to printer. Same basic cover as the first three volumes. It will be interesting to see if these do as well as the mostly fiction volumes.

Volume 4: Heretics, Orthodoxy, What's Wrong with the World

Volume 5: All Things Considered, Tremendous Trifles, Alarms and Discursions

Volume 6: The Defendant, Varied Types, A Miscellany of Men, Other Stories

Foolish Questions

Sent to the printer. I wish I was able to offer this as a smaller format book, as at 7 x 10, with a single panel on each page, I wasn't able to fit two on a page, and there's a lot of white space under each one. Still, it's better than not putting it out at all -- I'm still not sure what I'm going to do with some horizontal format golf comics I scanned years ago. The back cover, btw, just has two 1913/1914 color postcards with the same theme that I added; the inside comics are all black-and-white. See book details at Foolish Questions.

End of Month Update

Or, maybe better as a beginning of month update: Finishing up another 3-volume set of Chesterton's material, mostly his essays. Also, just waiting for one more image for the back cover of Foolish Questions. Scanned the two books that make up the Darby O'Gill stories, will work on that this month. Still working on Varmints; I have the bulk of the sightings portion done. Planning to scan a text on medieval dyes. Still waiting on a few texts by a few other authors.