Well,
After a long weekend, the rough draft of the book is finished and all picture and captions in place. Now we are doing the editing of the text in the evenings. This may take a week or so. Trying to make sure this just takes up time at nights but makes for some very long days. There have been a couple nights(mornings) that I got to bed at 2:30 AM just to get up at 6:00 and hit it again!!!
Happy with the layout of the book so far but it got alot longer then I was expecting it to be. The $30-$40 per book price was limited to 40 pages which I was not aware of. By the time I got everything done and talked about what I felt was needed, we were up to 94 pages!!! This will certainly add to the cost but I do not know how much at this point. If it gets to high, I may go back and do a 8x11 version that is much more compact then the book we just finished just to get the price down to where more would want to buy it. Will not make a penny on these, sell them for what they cost me, just a historical reference for 50 years down the road more then anything.
Anyway, hope to have everything done and submitted for printing in a week or so.
Will keep you all posted.