Sports Turf Management in the Transition Zone

We received the finished copies of Sports Turf Management in the Transition Zone, and it's beautiful! Congratulations to the Virginia Sports Turf Managers Association!

We'd like to thank Taylor Publishing for printing a very attractive book, and for their endless patience and cooperation.

Pocahontas Press highly recommends Taylor for anyone looking for a classy, well-organized printer. They're currently printing another of our books, and we can't wait to see it!

Sports Turf Management was developed by faculty and researchers at Virginia Tech for the Virginia Sports Turf Managers Association. It is a guide to the development and maintenance of safe, functional, and aesthetically pleasing sports fields. Retail is $24.95. Five dollars of each sale goes towards turf grass research at Virginia Tech. You can order Sports Turf Management by contacting us through our website.

Poet to Publish Children's Book

Mildred Nash wrote a poetry book for us back in 1989, and now we're working on her first children's book, Stars for Starters. It aims to help children learn the constellations.

Susan Strayer, from Hollins University, will be designing the book for us.

Proof-checking

We received proofs for two books today -- for the Virginia Tech turf management book and for the art book by Radford University professor Halide Salam -- and they both look ok. There were, of course a few minor errors, but it's hard to say whether or not they're worth changing at this point. The purpose of a proof is to insure that everything prints as desired, to allow for last-minute changes. It's the last chance to make alterations.

But how picky should you be? Is it worth it to make minor spacial adjustments? For example, if a picture is one-sixteenth of an inch off center, should we bother to correct it? It is visible, but barely.

Some printers discourage such minor changes by charging per page for every proof correction they have to make. One printer wanted to charge us fifteen dollars per page for even the tiniest of changes, such as the 1/16 inch correction mentioned earlier. Such a policy hardly facilitates last-minute scrutiny on our part. We understand that it takes work-hours to make corrections; but for the sake of creative integrity, some leniency must be granted.

NPR

Anyone have any success stories or advice about getting your authors airtime on public radio stations?

Public radio is a great asset to the community, and many of our authors could benefit greatly by being featured on their programs.

We're working on pitching David Elkinton's book, Fighting to Protect the Highlands: The First Forty Years of the West Virginia Highlands Conservancy, to NPR stations in Appalachia, hoping to have him featured on a program such as Studio Virginia (in the Roanoke area) or Inside Appalachia (in West Virginia).

Before the holiday, Paula Stanley, Radford University Professor and author of Finding Endurance, was featured on Studio Virginia to discuss her book of poems published by Pocahontas Press. We're hoping that Paula will is the first of many Pocahontas Press authors to be featured on public radio.

Variorum (noun)

This is an edition containing various versions of a text. The American Heritage Dictionary.