My adorable neighbors Bill and Sandra told me that writing a
book is just the beginning. They specialize in military books but the
principle is the same. First you write it, then you get an editor and an art
director, send it to the printer, pay him and hey presto your book arrives in
no time. Yeah right. On pallets with 10 copies in a box weighing 28 pounds
each. Thank God Ferrari SF's service people came to my rescue and allowed the
copies to be unloaded at their San Rafael premises. So far so good. Then, if
this is your first book you realize that you have to fulfil all your
orders from people who have been kind enough to trust you without seeing
anything apart from your articles in FORZA. No problem apart from figuring out
postage, packing, shipping, labels, invoices, the sort of things all big
publishers employ lots of people to do. So with all of that falling on my
shoulders ably assisted by my lovely wife things are getting a bit hectic.
Still, we have a launch party organized for Wednesday both October at Ferrari
of San Francisco, 595 Redwood Highway, Mill Valley, CA 94941. Cline are very
kindly pouring the wine, Piatti will be serving refreshments and I will be
happy to sign personalized copies. Neither purchase of a 458 Spider nor of my
book are obligatory although Sales Director Mark Paddack will happy to part
with one. The book at 40 dollars costs less than any part of a 458 apart
from the documentation, without the leather binder of course. Please let me
know if you can make it,
http://www.franklyfrankl.com
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