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When writing my first cruise stories I never imagined they would eventually come together as a book titled The Captain’s Log. I got all kinds of positive feedback, from people stopping me to say how much they’d enjoyed reading Cruise Industry News with my column on the last few pages to others exclaiming, “You should write a book!”

That always got a smile from me and a promise that I would think about it. I started a search for publishers and quickly I found myself in a completely unknown world – a world full of no answers and rejections. Should I self-publish? That brought another fruitless search, because this world was full of traps and double bottoms, as well. Searching on the Internet proved to be a source of aggravation, with my email inbox quickly flooded by messages from companies with the most promising names, offering to do it all for me.

I’m not a fast decision maker when it comes to matters like this, a fact that made me realize that with at least 95% of these seemingly generous offers, everyone would end up with making a profit except me! Finally I took the plunge with the help of a small company in New York called Booksjustbooks. Should I print a thousand books? It seemed to be a fantastic number and a bit of a gamble, but I decided to go ahead.

Now seven years later, the first book has seen six print runs and it’s high time for a sequel.

I’d like to thank Oivind Mathisen of Cruise Industry News and Ron Pramschufer of Booksjustbooks for their help and support.

I hope you will enjoy The Captain’s Journal.