Bill McClain's Home Page

Last updated: January 10, 2013

Sattre Press

I own Sattre Press, a book publishing company. I do the book design, typesetting, web design, programming, selling, shipping and everything else except the printing and binding.
Here is an essay giving the details of how I got started.

Online Books

As part of my work with Sattre Press, I am putting some public domain titles on the web for free. They are listed on The Online Books Page and have been contributed to Project Gutenberg.
Available now:

Pagan Papers, by Kenneth Grahame

Tales of War, by Lord Dunsany

Curiosities of the Sky, by Garrett P. Serviss

In the Quarter, by Robert W. Chambers

Book Reviews

Fiction
- Robert W. Chambers
- John Crowley
  - The Deep
  - Beasts
  - Engine Summer
  - Little, Big
  - AEgypt
- R. A. Lafferty
  - Past Master
- Mark Twain
  - Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc
- Capsule Science Fiction Reviews
Politics
- Neil Postman, Technopoly
Woodworking
- Sam Allen, Making Workbenches

Movie and Audio Reviews

Eric Voegelin Study Page

Outlines, articles and links which may be helpful for those reading political scientist and philosopher Eric Voegelin.

Computing

Hardware

Montag is a home computer built in September 2007.
Dolores is a home computer built in September 2011.

Typography

The ConTeXt and pdfTeX Beginners Help Page is a collection of hints and examples I collected while learning to use TeX.

Résumé

Software Consulting, Contract Programming, Book design and typesetting
Specialties:

C++, Python, COBOL, SQL, HTML, other languages.

UNIX, Linux, and VMS programming.

Relational database design, tuning and application development for large systems.

INGRES.

TeX and ConTeXt

Quotes

Friends of Mine

Comments?

Bill McClain (wmcclain@watershade.net)