“Found in the Garage:
A Collection of Writings, Musings and Way Too Many Opinions.”
By Katie Raymond 
This title by Katie Raymond shines with the bright light of a young woman I have always know was on her way to someplace important. Well, she’s left the building and we’ll be watching with great anticipation to find out where she’s headed. Without an ounce of shame, let me say, “buy this book.” Go to WWW.Lulu.com. Katie has already pledged royalties to incarcerated women Katie has befriended.
The Book is the name of the course I teach periodically at Western Connecticut State University designed for students just beginning a book-length projects or others with manuscripts in various stages.
On Oct. 12, Prof. Hugh McCarney presented a wide variety of exquisite, hand-made books by Keith Smith.
While we generally only cover the writing process related to book publishing, students nevertheless are always interested in almost every aspect of the business. McCarney, a long-time friend of Smith, showed off a wide range of work by this innovator, who writes, edits and distributes his own titles from offices and a warehouse in Rochester, N.Y.
Since 1967 Smith has been making books. They range from artist books to poetry, textbooks and dictionaries. He has made over 150 one-of-a-kind artists books, most of which are in his own collection, seen by only a handful of people. Smith has published over two dozen small editioned artists books and book-length poems and written ten small dictionaries to aid structure and vocabulary in his poetry. The only books to have widespread distribution are his eight books-on-books: Structure of the Visual Book, Text in the Book Format, Bookbinding for Book Artists and the five volumes of Non-Adhesive Binding: Books without Paste or Glue, 1- 2- & 3-Section Sewings, Exposed Spine Sewings, Smith’s Sewing Single Sheets and Quick Leather Bindings.
You can find him yourself at www.keithsmithbooks.com
If you make your living as the acquisition editor for a major publishing house and are in search of new work, join us. Tell us what kind of fiction, nonfiction, sic-fi, romance novels you seek. Give us as full a description of the books you’d like to publish as possible and lets create a forum togerther where you can meet new writers or old ones like me for that matter who realize there must be a better way for us to meet and do some business.
