Book Signing Party Announced!

Mother's Cafe (Eastside) is hosting a book signing party on Friday, June 13, 2014, from 4:30 to 6:00. We're expecting a good turnout and it should be a lot of fun. Carol will be there even though it's her birthday. Must be important if The Butte Lady shows up on her birthday. Either that or her husband isn't very romantic. ;)

This is truly a big event for Pilot Butte. Linda's book is the first book ever written about Pilot Butte. People are loving this book so much that a sequel is already in the works. Purchasing this book helps the Butte and also helps us in our efforts to document Pilot Butte history in a way that is both engaging and entertaining.

Btw, Mother's is a good friend to Pilot Butte. Not only have they been sponsors of both SMB's, they were a vendor this year insisting on being up top giving out their juices to our participants. Also, I end up having a lot of meetings and, most often, people tell me they want to meet at Mother's. This is a good fit all around.

"Tales" book is now available in our online store

If you didn't get your copy at SMB 2014, fear not. You can buy it today in our new online store. Or, if you wait just a bit, it will be available at a really nice book signing that is planned for mid-June. Or get the best of both worlds by buying the book today and then taking it to the book signing. It's up to you. But if you are like many, you'll want to have this book. It gives you a good taste of what's to come when the 2nd and final edition is released in 2015. It's also a good way to support an important project related to Pilot Butte. We've looked high and low and this appears to be the first book ever written about the Butte. Follow the evolution of this book on this blog and on this webpage. We'll announce the next book signing here as soon as we have all the details.

Wow. We got it done.

I think it's right up there as one of the best days of my life. Linda and I were feverishly exchanging emails trying to get this book completed and to the printer in time to be published for SMB 2014.  I'm sure we exchanged well over 100 emails in a day's time. Plus we both had other things going as well. Everything just came together as if other forces were at play. There's just something about this book that's hard to describe.

Another memorable day was when we got the first proof back from the printer. There are things you can't know until you hold the book in your hands. The weight of the paper seemed just right, the font was perfect, and the spacing of lines made it an easy read. The photos and illustrations all seemed to work. The cover was as good as it gets when you're limited to just black and white.

For our first outing as a publisher, PBSS did a fine job. Of course, a lot of that had to do with Linda. Part of the fun was I got to help her a bit with the writing and she helped us more than a bit on the publishing side.

Phase one now completed, we start working on the second and final edition. It's now clear this book is going to be a real page turner when the much expanded edition is published in about a year. You can help by buying a copy of this first edition, Who knows, it might even be of interest to collectors someday. More important, we'll raise money for Pilot Butte and give Linda more freedom to concentrate on the next edition.