I’m away in New York City, doing Yeti business, of course, including launching the new classics, like Abominable Snowmen: Legend Come to Life (PayPal me at lcoleman@maine.rr.com $25 marked “For ABSM Book” and I’ll send you, postpaid, an autographed copy, a hardback of this new printing to any USA address, for this one-time discount price). See the end about news of another classic to be reprinted.

But, anyway, I left something for you to read on Saturday.

Before I get into the crop of new cryptozoology books on the horizon for 2008 in a forthcoming post, how about a trip back to the days when it was oh so difficult to just print the volumes we use to read?

Forget about writing them (which I appreciate is hard enough), take a look at what it took to get a book out the door before computers:

I’ve learned from cryptozoologists in France that Bernard Heuvelmans’ book on the Homo pongoides will be republished this Spring, but with an important new update and edition: the new volume of Heuvelmans and Boris F. Porchnev’s (1974) L’homme de Néanderthal est toujours vivant will contain all the color photographs from the archives that were taken in Minnesota.