Well, okay---so I DID write the damned book, okay---but that's NOT the point. After I kissed goodbye to the thing many months ago, I presumed---as former editor of the Maritime Museum of San Diego's kick-ass quarterly "Mains'l Haul: A Journal of Pacific Maritime History"---that I'd be called on to put the thing "to bed" in final assembly. But actually, this thing was taken totally out of my hands, & done (gulp!) better than even I could've!
So, GRACIAS! (& then, there's the little matter of my 8 cm. brain tumor. But I'll tell that one another time.)