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Well, the first review is in, and I am pretty sure we didn't send him a check or a new rod.

Anyway, thank you for the kind words!

The Angler Management manuscript is plugging along, and we're halfway done. We expect that much of the unedited ms. is in declarative subject/object/verb-type sentences, and we are using a very high quality red pen to gut the poo out if it even as I write this.

AM will be 60K words, with 50 cartoons, and it will be my first hardback book, so there is a good chance it will be nominated for a Pulitzer or a Nobel or a Golden Scud Literary Award.

At least.

AM is currently theoretically being considered by movie production companies in a parallel universe as the logical sequel to A River Runs Through It. As soon as I sent it to them. Just so busy. So tired. So very tired.

The current issue of Fly Fisherman has a four page spread on AIT, and the photo of me was taken only two years ago, so I almost still look like that.

I swear.

Check it out, and buy 23,109 copies for all of those fly fishermen on your gift list or any other list you keep today.

It's out.

It's selling.

It's bigger than the Beatles (are those terrestrials?).

Over three copies have sold thus far, and the number must keep growing every day, or Jack Ohman will have to send his children to a second-tier small liberal arts college in a cold midwestern state.

Do you want a signed copy with an original cartoon? Email me with your special request, and I will give you a rate quote. Would you like a caricature of Uncle Bob? Send along a pic, and we'll barter. I love the free markey economy, and I am currently more reliable than Lehman Brothers, AIG, The Fed, and virtually any other financial institution you can name.

Remember, books with original cartoons in them are a thoughtful and highly-sought after gift, one that will tell the recipient over and over again: I am the owner of a book with an original cartoon in it.

...and we're resting our thumb.

Stackpole will be publishing it for Christmas, 2008.

You can just send cash, checks, or Bear Stearns promissory notes to Amazon.com and pre-order there. If you live in Portland, I suggest this because the fly fishing books sell out of Borders and the like immediately. The local Borders-type stores have no way of communicating, apparently, to their national buyers that some authors have...um...local connections. That's been my experience, historically.

Anyway. I digress.

Northwest fly shops have usually ordered enough to meet demand, but, again, I have no idea how this is going to all play out if we're sending all of our money to the Federal Reserve for Christmas. So, pre-ordering is a good idea if you want to get one for Uncle Bob.

Your cartoonist will be heading to the Owyhee next month, with seven dozen black woolly buggers. He will attempt to avenge last season's breaking of his Winston six weight on a wing dam.

I'm pretty sure a brown trout had something to do with it. They're sneaky.

Well, at long last, there will be a sequel ( a companion volume volume sounds classier, so let's go with that) to Fear of Fly Fishing. I have just signed a contract with Jay Nichols of Headwaters Books, and the new book will be published by Jay and Stackpole Books. I am thrilled to be working with Jay, who was, of late, the managing editor of Fly Fisherman magazine. John Randolph of Fly Fisherman, as well as Jay, have been enormously encouraging in my fly fishing humor career (mostly my fly fishing humor consists of me attempting to fly fish), and I am grateful to Jay for patiently recruiting me to write this new book. The delivery date for the manuscript will be March, 2008, with a fall 2008 publication date.

I will keep you posted as to the progress on the book, but also look forward to any suggestions for subject matter than any of you have. I spent most of the summer fishing in order to get the creative river flowing ( poor me), and am always open to reader thoughts.

Thanks again to Jay, and tight lines!

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