NEWS & NOTES

 Welcome to Salal Books! We have been selling books by mail order for years and this new domain gives you the flexibility to accumulate materials from a single source and have them bulk shipped at a more attractive price.

For the next while, we will be engaged in the process of increasing the listings of our hard-cover stock. We have been busy over the winter moving and updating our stock from ABEbooks to this new site. Now we will be posting new items that we have not listed before on the web. We have almost finished with our hardcover fiction and are now beginning to list the biographies and history and arts. Next will come the sciences and social sciences and so forth. There will eventually be about 3,000 items to browse. Please forgive us if our listings appear somewhat haphazard in the meantime. We will catch up with detailed descriptions of each item as time allows. Happy browsing...

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SPECIAL DEALS (Summer 2009): We have 2 special offers available...

1. All of Sandra Friedman's titles are temporarily discounted $10 to help us free up some space in our warehouse. The Just for Girls, Just for Boys and Nurturing Girlpower manuals are $25 (reg. $35). When Girls Feel Fat is $10 (reg. $19.95). Body Thieves is $5 (reg. $14.95).

2. Free shipping throughout North America for orders over $80.00 (not including tax). 

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Contract Editorial Services:  Your host on this site, Dan Fivehouse, has spent most of his work career freelancing in communications: writing, editing, publishing, filmmaking, photography, etc. I still maintain that skill set doing contract work. For an example of my work, see any of the books authored by my wife, Sandra Susan Friedman. My past editorial work includes fiction, biography, industrial history, technical and explanatory texts, topics in the natural sciences and social sciences—pretty much anything with the exception of politics and religion.

  I usually charge on a project-basis for book editing and story-doctoring using a formula of roughly $50/hour depending upon the complexity of the work and so forth. My charge for a read-through with structural suggestions is usually a lesser fee billed on a per-page basis. My favored document platform is Microsoft Word for PC, but I can accomodate Quark or Acrobat as required. I am also conversant with some of the various ebook conversion systems. If you have a project in mind and would like to discuss it with me, you can phone or email me at    dan@salalbooks.com

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The Sunshine Coast: If you are traveling our way during summer, keep in mind that the internationally-renowned Sunshine Coast Festival of the Written Arts is held at the Rockwood Centre in Sechelt the third weekend in August each year. For information call 1.800.565.9631 or visit:

www.writersfestival.ca

For more information about our area and for a more complete listing of all our festivals and events view this excellent guide to the SunshineCoast:

http://bigpacific.com/

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Antique Store For Sale: Retrotique, a store selling classic furnishings, ornaments, objets d'art, country crafts and fine antiques in the village of Sechelt, BC, Canada (pop: 9,000). After many years of providing designers and decorators and local residents with a unique and eclectic selection of high quality pieces, the owner must leave the business for health reasons. Sale price is negotiable. Even in lean economic times, the shop represents a stable hobby business for a knowledgeable retired person or couple. The lease on the premises can be renewed in the summer of 2010. The owner is also willing to consider the sale of contents only. Contact the owner directly: Phyllis Gunther 604-885-4242. Location: The shop is located on Trail Avenue in the centre of Sechelt—gateway to the resort areas of the Sunshine Coast (total resident pop: 28,000) along the eastern shore of British Columbia's great Salish Sea. This is an area with high foot traffic. The shop is bordered on one side by Ashley's, the village's primary source for used books and recordings, and on the other by Tailwind Books, the source for new books and paper goods and by Pastimes toy store. Directly across the street is Trail Bay Centre, the town's main shopping mall with abundant parking. At the north end of the block is Cowrie Street, the town's main commercial street and at the south end of the block is the Sunshine Coast Highway. Transportation: a 15-minute flight from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada or a more leisurely journey using traditional means—a 20-minute drive from the city centre to the ferry terminal at Horseshoe Bay in West Vancouver, a 40-minute voyage on the ferry to Langdale—threading its way past the islands scattered throughout Howe Sound, and a further 20-minute drive along the Sunshine Coast Highway to Sechelt.