...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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