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   mike valla

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   06/16/10

   Dear Mark
   
   Thank you, Mark, for your gracious comments. Appreciated more than you may think.
   
   About the postings. I was doing these for just the sheer fun of it. But I've had at least a couple dozen inquiries about creating a book from them. So I am doing that, and have a publisher. It will be a companion guide, of sorts, to my last book.  100 images (many seen on Clark's) with short notes/anecdotes. The publisher is doing 100 hardcover LTD  Edition copies, signed and numbered (hopefully with slip case). Title "The Classic Dry Fly Box".  In addition, there will be a less expensive paperback "trade" edition.  I'm donating my entire Royalty from the LTD to the Catskill Fly Fishing Center and Musuem.
   
   I have 80 flies done, and photographed, and am writing the text right now. I hope to wrap it up in a couple of weeks.
   
   -Thanks again
   Mike V.
   
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   06/16/10

   Reply from splinters:

   Mike - Your companion book sounds fantastic.  Can I put my name on the list for one of the limited editions? 
   
   Your mention of your youth and hearing Walt Dette talk about Corey Ford is great stuff.  Funny how things in youth can shape and carry on through adult life.  Just in the past year I have been feeding my mother a steady diet of short story books to read - she is in her 80s and has just finished the Corey Ford Lower Forty series - she loved them.  
   
   Looking back now you obviously realize what a unique experience and opportunity you had.
   
   By the way, a couple of years ago Clark City Press (Russell Chatham) was working on publishing a book about Art Flick (Catskill Innkeeper may have been the planned title) but apparently the author passed away; that and the cost of publishing has delayed the project.   You may have known the author - would be great to see it come to fruition.  
   
   Sincerely
   Mark Olson
   Mpls Mn
   
   

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