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Jun 19 08 2:28 AM
HalLane wrote: But Bill, surely you can just print out the pages that have been corrected, can't you? (Don't number the pages -- let McFarland add their own page numbers.)
McFarland requires the pages to be numbered. There were five entries that somehow I failed to include properly the first time around (I'm very grateful to Bill Thomas, my Research Associate, who caught the omissions), and they're scattered through the book--one each in the A, J, K, P and V sections--so the numbering is completely askew. Oddly, though, I've found as I absorb them in and remove some unnecessary white space (between an entry and the following one), the new page numbers are only 10 or so off the old ones. But I haven't finished yet. My plan at this point is to yes, begin reprinting all the pages. I still have some photos coming from the great Still Things website; I can't send the book in until I have all the stills (and frame grabs) in hand. I'll continue to print the pages until the photos arrive; when I have written captions for them, I'll stop printing. I'm sure I'll be way past 100 pages. When I began this project about four years ago, I thought it would take me about a year to rewrite the entries the way I wanted to, but it's taken a whole hell of a lot longer than that, and come out much larger than I initially expected. I originally told Robbie Franklin (head of McFarland) that it would be >shorter< than the original edition. Hardy har har. I >think< I've done something worthwhile here--that is, I think the revision has made this a better book. But I'm not the final judge of that. At least it will have more photos. And Frank Dietz's drawings. I'm quite aware of how much this would/will cost to ship; that's of little concern; I've spent so much time and money on it already a bit more is a mere bag of shells.. I wanted to actually DO this, to see the result, to hold it in my, uh, well, couldn't hold it in ONE hand--but I wanted to hold it anyway, to see the bulk of this project. And I don't give two tenths of a damn if other people think this is a waste of time. It is, after all, MY time to waste.
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