After writing the last section of my Publishing Timeline, I decided it would be handy to have them all in one place. Here’s a list of the seven parts, with links:
Publishing Timeline: 1. Early Years
Publishing Timeline: 2. California Bound
Publishing Timeline: 3. The Renaissance Press and Beyond
Publishing Timeline: 4. New York City and Aperture
Publishing Timeline: 5. [...]
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Publishing Timeline
This is the seventh and final article in a series describing my Publishing Timeline; the events, experiences and occupations that have somehow shaped my business life up until today.
We settled in San Rafael, a diverse small city about 20 minutes north of San Francisco. As Jill got to know people in the mortgage business, I [...]
This is the sixth in a series describing my Publishing Timeline; the events, experiences and occupations that have somehow shaped my business life up until today.
In the late 1980s Jill and I met someone who would change my course in the publishing industry: Felix Morrow. Felix had had a long career as a writer and [...]
This is the fifth in a series describing my Publishing Timeline; the events, experiences and occupations that have somehow shaped my business life up until today.
I had decided I could do without the “psychic rewards” that publishing offered, and that it was time to look for less lofty rewards, like a decent salary. I’d become [...]
This is the fourth in a series describing my Publishing Timeline; the events, experiences and occupations that have somehow shaped my business life up until today.
I had been gone from the city for several years, and in the meantime had joined the spiritual group of which I was still a member, run my first company, [...]
This is the third in a series describing my Publishing Timeline; the events, experiences and occupations that have somehow shaped my business life up until today.
It was around this time, in the mid 1970s, that I started my first business, Godspeed Graphics. Through the group I connected to the wonderful art director Don Birrell at [...]
This is the second in a series describing my Publishing Timeline; the events, experiences and occupations that have somehow shaped my business life up until today.
Where I eventually washed up was near the beach in Pacific Grove, California, a sleepy town wedged between tony Carmel to the south and old Monterey to the north. I [...]
This is the first in a series describing my Publishing Timeline; the events, experiences and occupations that have somehow shaped my business life up until today.
In the beginning was the type—the big fat American Type Foundry (ATF) sample books that held down the bottom shelf in the living room.
That’s where my brother and I [...]
