LightSpeed
Publishing, Inc., was originally founded in 1995 to produce and publish
material to
help everyday readers better understand and use their computers. Our
company has served as a valuable resource for the publishing and
technical industries for over twenty-five years. Early on, we
self-published a
few of
our own titles including The Coin and Stamp Collectors' Electronic
Handbook and The Digital Crystal Ball, which were
distributed by Publishers Group West.
These days, mostly under the name of Earthshine Productions, we
specialize in editing
fiction
and general nonfiction titles—please see the Publications page for the
books we've been involved with. Our
clients include or have included BenBella Books, Girl Friday
Productions, Ulysses Press, Kirkus, becker&mayer, Amazon
Publishing (through three aforementioned packagers), Sterling
Publishing, Microsoft Press, International
Masters Publishing, Peachpit Press, The Coriolis Group, Sybex, Ventana
Communications, Waite Group Press, DeAvila-Duncan (McGraw-Hill), and
New World Library.
Founder/president Scott
Calamar has close to forty-five years of
professional
experience in project, personnel, and company management. His skills
include writing, editing, development, and publishing books,
newspapers, magazines, software, subscription cards, and websites.
While
Scott personally handles the development, editing, and management, we
sometimes work with longtime
subcontractors to handle all facets of your projects. These include
writers, editors, designers, desktop publishers, illustrators,
photographers, indexers, proofreaders, and technical consultants. With
hundreds of books produced or contributed to, and two long-running,
successful “continuity (subscription) card” series (a total
of over 1500 gatefold full-color pieces) delivered, we have never
disappointed a client.
Scott's career
began in weekly newspapers in Southeastern Connecticut
and Northern California. He was a pioneer in the technical writing
industry, contributing light-hearted tutorial articles to
computer magazines in the early 1980s. Scott has worked for a developer
of ESL tests, and served as editor-in-chief of Waite Group Press, a
ground-breaking
computer book company. After helping to build that packager from three
people into a multimillion dollar publisher with over thirty employees
and
numerous titles on the computer bestseller list, he left to start LSP
in 1995. Scott enthusiastically continues to be involved in publishing
projects,
intending to sail off into the sunset as of May 2026 (retirement). :)
Scott is also a songwriter / musician, with an
ASCAP-registered song publishing company, Calasongs, for his own tunes.
His band, Wine
Without Reason, has performed his original compositions at venues
and wineries in
Southern Oregon. Scott founded and ran the
popular music
listing web
site AshlandLiveMusic.com (2007–2014)
in Ashland, Oregon, where he has resided since 2001. He also
has occasionally written for local newspapers. You can visit Earthshine.com
for more info about his music and various endeavors.
As of August 1, 2018, LightSpeed Publishing is a
trade name of Earthshine Productions, LLC, an Oregon corporation.
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