I had a couple of printed examples at Sonoma last weekend, showing it around to generate interest and to let people see the size, quality, and overall look of the book. Everyone was impressed and wants to see this happen.
I also showed this to Jay who was satisfied that the book did not appear to represent Lemons itself, so we are good to go with that. Phil will help me get the proper photo credits for Über Gallery photos we use, and The Speedway Children's fund was happy to see it and wants to be on board. They will be providing me with something for the pages I've set aside for them. The Cal Auto Museum is already on board and now I just need to find the right person in Alex's Lemonade Stand to get them on board.
My goal is to have this on the shelves at the auto museum on Feb 1. It takes about a week to get them printed and in my mail box, and I need to do at least one round of proofs to make sure it is up to Lemons standards. So that puts me at mid-January for a deadline to have my stuff done. If I give myself a week to get late submissions in that puts your deadline at around January 7. That's just under a month. Plenty of time, right?
As for price and availability, you'll order them yourselves from the printer, online. It's easy. The price will be printing costs plus $10, the $10 being split evenly between the two charities and the museum. Printing costs for what I have now, 127 pages including cover, etc, is $26.
Simply message me if you have an article to submit. Once I get it I'll paste it in and send you a proof to review. We'll go back and forth until we are both happy with it.
The central idea of the book is crapcan racing, particularly in Lemons, from the point of view of the people racing in Lemons. Within that well have two sections, teams (about your team), and tales, (about your races). So what I am looking for are two things. The first is a short article on who your team is. The idea here is to let people on opposite coasts, or even same regions, know who you are , why you race, etc. Also, think of it as something the grand kids will want to see long after you are retired from Lemons, or you want to impress some guy or girl, or your parents. Maybe you are new to racing, people would want to know this. Or maybe you have 30+ years racing experience and for some reason decided to try Lemons. Or maybe your team story is about a bunch of guys who all think each others wives are hot and making everyone spend all their free time in the garage with you is a marriage preservation strategy. Or just maybe you are a so-called "girl" team that is bucking societal norms and wrenching and racing your own car. (Rae, LadyBugs, Midol, Mary, tell us about it.) Length can be from 1 to 4 pages, including photos, but the page limit is not a hard limit.
The second item, optional, is a racing-related story, if you have one. So far we have some very nice stories and I have been promised more. Some will be "typical", if that can be said about any of this, and in this case typical means universal, the classic Lemons experience. First race, last race, soldiering on and overcoming failure, marriage proposals. Tell us about it.
I have been loving the stories that have come in so far. I think you will, too. Make sure to get something in. If you miss the deadline there may be next year's edition to shoot for, but don't wait. Get your stories in this year.
Mike
I'm reading all I can in this to make sure the rookie mistakes are kept to a minimum.