Dear Folks, I thought you might be interested in the message I received yesterday from Tracy who had contacted me regarding my submitting some of my stories to her and having one or two of them actually being published by Silver Creek publishing. She said, >I finally heard back from Spring Creek publishing. You would retain the > copyright for your individual story but the whole book would be > copyrighted > by the publisher. So that's good news if you wanted to re-publish > something > for yourself. > Hope that answers your question. > Thanks! In response I said, "I must admit that I'm very pleased with such an arrangement regarding copyrights that certainly makes sense. But I've gotta tell you something that I want to thank you for. Because of your inquery, it made me think about the numerous stories that I've written over the years about not only my genealogy adventures but of the memories of my childhood years, my teenage year, my 30 years in the Navy and into my Senior Citizen years. I'm 73 years old and I've been sharing those stories with my email friends for a number of years. In turn a number of them have been begging me to put those stories into book form so that they could read them again at their leisure. Again, thank you. As a result I've been printing out all my stories in draft form and eventually plan to put them in good order, edit them severely, print them out properly and hand over my manuscript to the local photocopier to print out all so that all I need to do is spiral bind them on my own spiral binding machine. Whether I send them off to only my family members who I know will treasure what will basically be my autobiography or to others who just enjoy reading all my stories will remain to be seen. If it weren't for you, I wouldn't have received the eventual impetus to finally do what I've wanting to do for years. Good luck with your project." vee