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02/06/06 ~ The Era of the Clipper Ships: The Legacy of Donald McKay has been available from this Web site for a year now, and so far we have sold over 60 copies. We have gotten some wonderful feedback, and the book continues to evolve. The book will not be available in bookstores for a while. It has taken us a lot longer to get this book all together than we ever thought it would, but we're launching it now.

This is a "Special Edition" galley proof-draft edition, a practice run so to speak, for we felt it was necessary to do it this way so that we could get a handle on the whole publishing process, and get some copies out to our wide circle of framily and friends in the maritime world for their critique, proofing, and feedback before we go ahead with the offset printing of the 1st edition. We also still have a few pictures to round up.

For the time being we are printing up copies of the book on our new Brother HL-5150D Monochrome laser printer and comb-binding the books.

If you surf around the 72 Web pages of The Era of the Clipper Ships, you can kind of get an idea of just what the content and story of the book is going to be like. Although the book is edited differently from the Web site, in the traditonal way in 56 chapters, 320 pages, and laid out 8 1/2" x 11" in QuarkXPress with double-columns in 10-point Times New Roman fonts. There are 220 black & white pictures, along with a representation of some of the color pictures that are under consideration for the 1st edition.

What we have here is a fine looking book and everyone can take a look at some of the pages now that are up on our new Minnehaha Press Web page. Surf on in and see.

Keep in mind that the same good sense of design and careful attention to detail shown on the Web site has been given to the layout of the book for we really are desktop publishers at heart. And we would rather be doing it all ourselves for all the same reasons that Donald McKay built his ships himself, "on spec" if he had to, rather than rely on others to build his ships for him.

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We will ship the book right now with the understanding that we will send another regular 1st edition of the book at a later date whenever we get around to printing up our offset 1st edition, hopefully in the not too distant future, just as soon as we hear back from all our maritime friends, purge all the typo Gremlins, and do the final edit. This should not take all that long. We plan to get the 1st edition out there as soon as we can into the bookstores.

Happy sails,

Don Ross

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Attention educators, teachers, historians, librarians, maritime museum staff, and book store owners. If you would like to find out more about acquiring copies of this special edition please get in touch with us.

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We just need a whole bunch or orders soon so that we can pull ourselves up by our bootstraps into the publishing world. Then we will be able to support all of our efforts expounded upon all over this Web site.

So just print and fill out the Book Order Form, and mail it along to us with your payment of $50 and we will mail the book off to you right away.

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