Any status update on D.S. Abbot´s book project?

[Kosh]

Thanks for the updates! Any idea how many book pages the 700+ double spaced script turn into?

[Rick]

Originally Posted by Kosh

Thanks for the updates! Any idea how many book pages the 700+ double spaced script turn into?

Half ?? Really, I have no clue. And won't, 'til I see the proofs. R.

[Kosh]

Have you had any discussion regarding layout? I think e.g. O'Connors Aviation Awards a nicely laid out one, though I´d prefer slightly smaller font (Whitney´s Vee´s for Victory has nice, small enough font). I really hated when they increased the font size in WW One Aero. The best option for WW1 would have been to go to 3-column layout, reduce font size while making sure than line spacing is adequate. This way readability would have been improved while word count per page would also have increased allowing reduction in page count and in turn reducing paper and shipping costs.

[Rick]

No discussions. I feel it is pretty much out my hands (and control) once I turn it over to Schiffer.

[buzz1941]

Originally Posted by MikeW

how do you create the index before you get the galleys? Once Bob Biondi at Schiffer (I assume it's Bob) has laid it all out, none of the page numbers will match what you have now

Modern page-composition programs like InDesign "tag" indexable words and names and then generate the index as the book is laid out. Great feature. Use it all the time.

Talked to Dan San the other day....I know how much work he put into it....when asked about the book......no comment ! Double spaced ?????

[Dan_San_Abbott]

Taz:
If this was making a living, I would have starved to death two years ago. Writing aviation history is the bottom rung of the ladder. Writing about Michael Jackson and and the others like him is where the money is. I was trying to think of the guy from Modesto who killed his wife and dumped her in the San Francisco Bay. Rick, bless his heart warned me in the beginning,it would not be fruitful, no, that 's San Francisco term, financially rewarding. It is prohibited by the 9th Federal Court of Appeals. Did you know that this court made a ruling that the U.S. Constitution is unconstitutionable!
Blue skies,
Dan-San

[totoroman]

cool-- this sounds like a book I'd like to buy.

DanSan, I told you to stay on the Peterson jury...but no you had drawing to do for your book.

the Jackson juror already have book and movie deals.

[Dan_San_Abbott]

Rick:
Tell them what you told me yesterday or whenever it was!
blue skies,
Dan