When Kay I formed KALM Publishing, Dot.Com was unknown to us. We were still back in the dark ages using a word processor to produce manuscripts that weren't camera-ready.
When I was 72 we finally caught up with the times - it was just before Sisters by Heart came out in 2001. We picked up the phone, called Gateway, and ordered a PC. When the boxes with their Holstein cattle decor were stacked in our tiny living room, we wondered what we had done.
We opened all the boxes and quickly found, unlike many mail orders, all the parts were included and went together smoothly. Within two hours our Gateway was up and running - including the printer.
The PC became our only official piece of office equipment. We used our five-foot dining room table as a partner's desk. It was only when company arrived that we got out our laundry baskets and packed up the mess of papers and books to uncover the table beneath. As the door closed behind our departing guests late in the evening, we wallowed in the delight in reclaiming the table with its disarray.
Finally we had to put an extra leaf in the table in order to accommodate our business sprawl. There was still another leaf in the storage shed but already our arms weren't long enough to pass things back and forth. A pneumatic tube would have been the only answer!
Humor inspired Sisters by Heart. After all the crises and near-catastrophes, when the shouting had all died away, there was always the ability to laugh - together, at ourselves and certainly at one another.
Without a doubt, the reservoir of adrenaline that has built up in us is the result of the fun and satisfaction we have derived in almost thirty years of applying our individual talents to a common goal.
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