Author: Stew Ross

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Image Licensing

unnamedWhere Stew Had Not Gone Before

Well, I didn’t think I’d have to venture into the world of image licensing until I was ready to publish the fourth book (Where Did They Put the Gestapo Headquarters?—A Walking Tour of Nazi Occupied Paris: 1940–1944). I wrote a previous blog (Copyrighted Material?) concerning copyright issues but that was before I actually went through the process.

For the first two books (Where Did They Put the Guillotine?—Walking Tours of Revolutionary Paris: 1789–1793), I thought I could get away with using original contemporary photos, images of engravings from my collection, and the original maps created by my friends Tom and Habib at Locomotion Creative.

So Sandy, Dan (our nephew and photographer), and Stephanie (my consultant) spent a whole weekend (about 15-hours) going through all of the images and determining which ones to use in each stop for each walk. Roy (our book designer) told us that we had to have at least one image for each stop.

What I found were a lot of holes

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Travel, Food & Taxes

It’s Been  Almost One Year

Stew Ross and Family in ParisSandy and I left for Paris (with Dan our nephew) last Spring to conduct research on the first two walking tour books (which by the way, will be going to print shortly).

It’s been almost 24 hours since I completed my taxes for 2013. Part of the process this year was to figure out the contribution Yooper Publications made to the family tax situation. Yooper, as you may recall, is the publishing company I started in 2012. The intent is to publish all the walking tour books under Yooper’s label.

I spent a good part of the day going through the costs of the Paris trip including going back to every receipt. As I read ones from the restaurants, my mouth started watering. I remembered the experience of eating at those restaurants and I’d like to share these with you.

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