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20 Friday Apr 2012

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Printing has been interrupted, that demon that is “business” has pulled me away from the press for now as I scurry around shipping out books, quote a couple jobs, line up further speaking engagements for Judith Minty for Killing the Bear and some long term book plans.

The day started out wonderfully with a long conversation with Steven Sorman about a couple of book ideas. One is of the T(here) folio of prints with writing by Patricia Clark, but a new idea came forth out of todays conversation which I’m pretty excited about.

A last minute corporate book job. Hmm, needs to be done by late May and you won’t have content for another week you say? No pause or cracked voice after I give a rough quote so it looks like The Intruder might take a little longer to get out….

By the time all is dealt with all we can do in the studio is to prepare for tomorrows printing and hope the dampened paper doesn’t go moldy on me.

More about the who and why of this project

13 Friday Apr 2012

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Books, Fine Press, John Voelker, Letterpress, Linotype, Voelker, Wood Engraving

‎”The Intruder”, from the book Trout Madness by Robert Traver/John Voelker is getting ready to roll off the presses.

What a mouthful eh? What this is in clearer phrasing is: A story about trout fishing on Michigan’s Upper Pennisula’s Escanaba River written by John Voelker (whose pen name was Traver) in 1960. Voelker was a Michigan supreme court justice when he wrote this along with his biggest literary success Anatomy of a Murder which was then turned into an Academy Award winning movie starring Jimmy Stewart.

Still confused? Well how about he’s considered the grandfather of modern fishing writing and I secured one of the finest wood engravers in North America, Jim Westergard, who has lavished his attention on it and provided me with 10 wood engravings to sweeten the whole project.

More details on the webpage and some images will shortly follow here. Book is due out in early May, just in time for something to do in the evening after fishing for trout!