At least once a month, a reader or vendor asks for a tour of our publishing facilities.
“We’d love to see your printing presses and meet your designers and editors.”
So it is fun to explain that Lost Art Press is just two guys with laptops who work from their homes. All our books are in a warehouse now (whew), but we still just build and write from our couches.
To satisfy requests for a tour, however, here is a brief video tour of my shop and office in Fort Mitchell, Ky. John Hoffman, my partner, has a similar setup in his home in Indiana.
While we certainly could afford offices and employees, we are committed to publishing books with almost no overhead so we can return more money to our authors. And so here is a look at where I work almost every day.
As Westley said in “The Princess Bride:” “Get used to disappointment.”
— Christopher Schwarz
Seems almost impossible to not have that pile of lumber that you wish you hadn’t purchased.
The Milkman’s bench is looking good next to the bookshelf.
You said that you regretted buying the lumber in your old workshop? It looks like nice wide boards of exotics, so maybe you can find some gine project for them at some time.
Brgds
Jonas
Jonas,
The lumber pile is actually almost all black walnut with a few boards of poplar — not very exotic.
I regret the purchase because I don’t like to store lumber that I don’t have a plan for. I bought it more as a favor for a friend. The seller was elderly, sick and needed the wood out of his basement.
If someone pulled up a truck and asked for that pile, I would gladly give it to them.
What if she pulled up in a Subaru? 😉
Come and get it.
Black walnut sounds very exotic to me. But it is sadly quite a long drive to pick it up.
Perhaps you could auction the stuff off like Megan did to “Woobie” a couple of years ago? “Authentic Schwarz owned black walnut”. You could either donate the money to some youth woodworking programme or keep it.
Have a nice weekend.
Jonas
I can now see the line of pick ups reaching from your house to Akron.
“…publishing facilities.”
“You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.” – Inigo Montoya
How much would you charge for the black walnut? I have a couple projects in mind that I’d use it for. However, I have limited space so I’d be interested in buying three boards.
Feeling just a tiny bit heartbroken that you didn’t point out the feather boa and glitter application workstation in your shop.
Three years later, I think I am prepared to declare my shop glitter-free.
Glitter is never eradicated once set free.
Glitter is never free. Someone always pays.
Someone. Always. Pays.
The French Bench video replacement for the home tour rocks