From: Jack Saunders
To: Jeff Potter
Subj: Reply to "New Jack Book Idea"

I would like to have you publish a book of mine for your ULA Press titles.

I don't want to publish A POSTCARD FROM SEASIDE.

I wanted to when I wrote it, and I wanted to when I asked you about it, some time later, but now, I have advanced beyond it in my thinking about the subject and don't want to go back and revisit the project.

I am finishing a book now that I hope to sell.

It probably won't sell, but I intend it to be published by a press that pays me to publish it. I'm not interested in publishing it as a ULA Press book, which I partially subsidize.

Maybe the next book, though.

I will write it during the month of February.

It will be called JACK THE RAVER--A LIFE ON PAPER, and be a summation of what I've been through, where I think I am now, and where I hope to be, before I die.

I don't care if my books are published or not.

I write them to write them.

That gets harder and harder to do, as I get older, lose hope, etc. I just publish them on the Internet, and if I get kicked off the Internet, which I think is a distinct possibility, I'll just make two copies, one for Larry and Hazel and one for Jim Garrison, and not worry about it. It's enough to write them, and know that two readers will read them.

So it will be done in March. The Good Lord willing and the creek don't rise.

I'd be glad to buy 100 copies at a 50% discount, say $800, off a $16 cover price, to help pay the cost of printing.

If I have $800.

If I have a job.

I expect to have a job by them, and $800, but I can't guarantee it.

I about have to because I am worried about transportation, property taxes, etc.

I think I could sell 100 copies, over the years.

You're right, this is a better deal than Robb White got from Hyperion for Tin Canoe, who let his book die. I'd be out there doing what I could.