Our next HarborTown Histories, San Diego, is scheduled to go to press next month. If it makes it, it will be a miracle. How much I have learned about the complexities of trying to publish a book from an island in British Columbia with most resources in California and Howard typesetting in Mexico!

After frantically searching for an express mail edited manuscript that took 6 weeks to arrive, I wondered if this book was "meant to be." Incompatable Quark versions, phones and internet that worked, didn't work, and, thankfully, worked again, amd trying to get a cover disk delivered to Howard in Mexico made me continue to wonder.

Stubborn (tenacious) I am not ready to give up and hope to send the final copy from Mexico to our printers in Canada, proofing as we stop in towns large enough to receive mail as we journey 800 miles back to San Carlos, crossing the Sea of Cortez twice. I think I must be crazy to even try - but I have hopes of taking delivery of them (plus a revised second edition of Catalina Island) in Ventura on our way home.

Here's hoping!