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We have had to make drastic changes due to Hurricane Katrina. Stella and I had worked in our home and all our books were stored there. The large house was washed away by Katrina’s 30+-foot storm surge, leaving nothing but the slab. Our inventory of 12,000 books was destroyed.
In the almost five years since the storm, we have struggled to continue. We have managed to publish two new books, A White Egret in the Shallows, and One Dog, Two Dogs, Three Dogs, Four... These have been doing very well thanks to readers such as you. Also, we have been able to reprint three of our best sellers, Sink or Be Sunk, and Holly!!, and Stella’s cookbook, Blueberry Peaches Red Robin Pie using plates that the out-of-state printers luckily saved
Sink or Be Sunk is actually a revised edition in that we have added a portrait and biography of Midshipman William P. Canby, one of the men mortally wounded in the naval action.
Finally, we have had numerous requests for Views from a Front Porch, our very first book, as well as for Waiting for the White Pelicans and Where the Blue Herons Dance.
What with the economy and the fact that the cost of printing has gone up considerably, we will not be reprinting them any time in the near future. If sales go well with our present books, we will republish them with a principle change being that they will all be in hard back and have dust jackets.
So, we are back in business, although going a little slower than before.
Please look over the announcement for our new book, The Way to STONE HILL that will come out from the printers the end of April and be available to order 1 May. If you enjoyed our other books, I’m sure you will enjoy reading STONE HILL.
We have another book, An Incident at Horta, which is due to come out May 2011. It is an important prequel to my book, Sink or Be Sunk, and details an 1814 battle between an American Privateer, General Armstrong, and a flotilla of British warships. If you enjoyed Sink or Be Sunk, you will equally enjoy An Incident at Horta.
As to this web site, I will continue to provide a story each month (please look at the story for this month). However, Stella’s present limited kitchen precludes her writing a new column for a while. Her monthly columns will be repeats of her most popular past columns and recipes. Hopefully this will change by the spring of next year.
Paul E. La Violette
Author and Publisher,
Annabelle Books