Almost Time!

In the next few days our new book CONVERSATIONS  Images and Poetry will roll off the presses! To say that we are eager to hold a copy in our hand is understated.

I have had a love affair with books ever sincre I was old enough to turn the pages in picture books. I love the way a book feels, its scent when it is new, the wonder of turning pages that have never been turned before. Or well worn pages from the library, a history of sorts as to a book's importance in many poeople's lives. Some books fill my shelves as markers in my life. Other books are re-read from time to time - always learning something that I'd missed before.

And when it is your own book! As a friend in grad school once remarked, "there is something so satisfying to hold the tangible pages of a term paper just off the printer."

I have watched the behemouth presses through a large window at the printing company we use. Big pale grey mysterious machines, all run by computer data. Some are color presses, while others print black words on white or creamy paper. Big rolls of various types of paper stand around like giant wheels, ready to be moved in place for another big event in someone's writing life. Rolls that sometimes are four feet in diameter.

Now it is almost time for our latest creation to take it final form. And we can hardly wait!