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How to Format a Book for Print and eBook Using LaTeX
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  • Writing

How to Format a Book for Print and eBook Using LaTeX

  • October 27, 2025
LaTeX is an ideal tool/markup language to use for formatting manuscripts, especially those that contain few images. I handled all of the formatting for my new book, Fly Fishing in…
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  • 6 min
  • Hunting & Fishing

The Marble and the Sculptor

  • July 2, 2025
First published on The Upland Soul on 7/1/2025. “Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.“ I am not sure where I first…
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  • Hunting & Fishing

Couldn’t Care Less

  • June 3, 2025
First published on The Upland Soul on May 20, 2025. I did some spring cleaning recently. A primary objective was to clear out an old dresser in the spare room…
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  • Hunting & Fishing

The Sterlingworth – America’s Scattergun

  • May 14, 2025
First published on The Upland Soul. The Ford V-8. The Dust Bowl. Hiroshima and the atom bomb. The birth of rock and roll and the death of The King. Vietnam.…
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  • Hunting & Fishing

Time and Place

  • April 22, 2025
First published on The Upland Soul. March and April are weird months for me in general. Nothing going on, really. Bird season is over and I’m fresh off our annual…
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  • Hunting & Fishing

The Faithful Servant, The Wingmaster

  • April 10, 2025
First Published on The Upland Soul. Back in the good old days, perhaps around ten years ago, you could walk around any gun show in America and have your pick…
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  • Hunting & Fishing

A Javelina Safari

  • March 27, 2025
First published on The Upland Soul on March 27, 2025. I’ve written previously about my love for bombing around the bajadas of the Sonoran desert in a clapped-out old Toyota…
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  • Hunting & Fishing

High Country Deer in Nowhere, Nevada

  • March 25, 2025
First published on The Upland Soul. I made my first camp at the trailhead 100 yards from an abandoned mining cabin in the national forest. It was a beautiful Great…
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Cold and Gray

  • March 14, 2025
Field Ethos was kind enough to publish a short read of mine about my first deer hunt. Head on over and give it a read.
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A President’s Day Fly Fishing Boondoggle

  • March 13, 2025
First published on The Upland Soul. When I moved to the wild and woolly West after a childhood on the East Coast, I had precious little understanding of the way…
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