“Honest Labour: The Charles H. Hayward Years” was a labor (labour?) of love for editor Kara Uhl and for Lost Art Press – no one was sure how this collection of Hayward’s “Chips From the Chisel” columns would be received. We’re glad you liked it – and that you liked it enough that we’ve almost sold through the first printing. So on Monday, Aug. 10, we’re going back to press.
We know about the three Roosevelt corrections on pages 81, 115 and 129 (as copy editor, I take all the blame for those mistakes. Of course I know it was Franklin, not Theodore, who was President during WWII. I don’t know how I missed those…but I did).
So other than those FDRs (about which I expect I’ll feel guilty for at least a decade), we’re asking for any oopsies you might have spotted – by Sunday (Aug. 9). Please send any corrections to me in an email: fitz@lostartpress.com. I’ll make those first thing Monday.
— Fitz
Have you guys given any thought to creating an index to these volumes? Its incredible information presented but difficult to navigate without an index.
Thanks
Hi Bob,
When we produce an index it’s a decision we normally have to do at the beginning of the process because it adds significant expense to the project. Indexing a book such as “Honest Labour” would be about $2,000. Indexing all the titles in the Woodworker series would probably run $10,000 to $12,000. We priced these books to have much lower margins than typical LAP books to make them accessible to more people.
So it would be financially a tough call for us. It’s something we have talked about before, but it’s not something we have figured out how to do. Yet.
Chris
My impression of the Anarchist’s workbench experience was that your gloriously awesome, friendly red-headed editor was very open to accepting help.
Maybe this is a project that could be partially crowd sourced, albeit with some editorial direction?
Speaking only for myself, I think if you’re going to donate your own time to us, (Cough! free workbench COUGH Book cough, cough) it’s only fair that you accept some of ours in return.
I don’t know quite how the logistics work on such a thing. But I suspect the potential cash cost is lower than you’d think, given the amount of potential grunt labor you have access to.
Your circus, your monkeys. Just my .02. But there are a lot of Really Bored People on lockdown right now…
Thanks for the response Chris. Just thought this may be a profitable project to market but doesnt sound economically feasible.
I like Bob Bell’s idea, although I’m sure it would be a huge undertaking.
Just received my copy and can’t wait to wade in. Thank you for your effort getting this into print.
It’s a fantastic book. I’m glad to hear it’s selling well.
Couldn’t wait to get my copy an have been thoroughly enjoying it ever since, even to the point of rationing myself so that I don’t devour it too fast and feel like it do when eating fish and chips at the pub. I love the fact that so many of the points C.H. makes are so relevant today. Take for example his column “Work & Pleasure” from 1942. As a Boy Scout leader for almost 25 years, these words of how youth leaders find it difficult to engage and interest boys in “meaningful” activities and not just the electronic diversions of today are as relevant today as they were 80 years ago. As to corrections, other than the Roosevelt references, I have no edits to add. Thanks for a wonderful book.
“V” is the volume I most often pull from the shelf. I see that I caught one of the loose Roosevelts, but frankly, it doesn’t matter. It was probably Eleanor, anyway.
I noticed a huge mistake in my copy…. Some crazy person bound it in a red cover so it doesn’t match the rest of my set.
It really sets off my CDO (that’s like OCD, but I put the letters in the right order).