YellowJacketPress: About the Publisher

About the Publisher

Upon her arrival for a visit with her brother and his wife in Oregon in 2004, Jan had a prearranged date to be kissed by Lea--a special, unique treat. With Lea's cold dripping whiskers, fishy breath and wet lips pressed to Jan's cheek, her eyes looked back to her trainer as if asking, "Am I doing this the way you want?" When Lea was pleased with herself, she clapped her flippers and barked loudly, "Arf! Arf! Arf!"

Lea is a California sea lion at the Oregon Coast Aquarium at Newport. Male sea lions weigh up to 860 pounds; females like Lea weigh up to 250 pounds and are about five feet long. They have small heads and large torpedo-shaped bodies with milk-chocolate color fur.

Inside the Oregon Coast Aquarium

Little sea otter rocked to sleep in his water cradle.

About the Publisher - Jan Girand

YellowJacketPress is located in Roswell, New Mexico. First, let's get this stuff out of the way:

New Mexico is one of the 50 United States of America, not a foreign country south of the U.S. border. And yes, we mostly speak English here in New Mexico.

Yes, this is the same Roswell known for aliens of the green or gray outer-space variety. Yes, this is the same Roswell internationally known for a saucer crash with aliens, although that crash did not happen at Roswell. It allegedly happened on the San Augustin Plains near Las Cruces, New Mexico. Another crash, or more likely, debris originating from that same saucer that crashed at St. Augustine, landed in a rancher's pasture near Corona, more than 100 miles northwest of Roswell. (You know how an airplane's wing or propeller might fall off and land miles before the plane crashed when traveling at a high rate of speed.)

So, you ask, how did Roswell become known as THE setting for those incidents from outer space when neither actually happened at Roswell? Supposedly crash debris and alien bodies were taken by the military from the two accident scenes to their Roswell Air Field (RAF) base south of Roswell. There, first the U.S. military announced they had flying saucer debris. Then the government retracted that statement and denied that debris was of an out-of-this-world substance. It's been denying that substance was of an alien origin ever since. Then supposedly some alien bodies from the St. Augustin crash were also transported to Roswell.

The world, along with many Americans, love to bash the U.S. government, enjoy conspiracies and unsolved mysteries. And besides, this media exposure has been good for the economy of Roswell, New Mexico. Do Roswellians really believe in aliens? ¿Quien sabe?

About that other misunderstanding: Except for a local store that sports the name, Area 51 is not in Roswell or New Mexico; that top secret government facility is in Nevada. So how did Area 51 become associated with Roswell? Supposedly the alien's bodies from the San Augustin Plains crash site were flown, from the RAF base by stealth of night, to Area 51 in Nevada for further scientific study. And--you guessed it--the government has denied that too.

Contact me by email. We can enter into a discussion to mutually decide whether Yellow Jacket Press is the right publisher for you. YellowJacketPress will accept several new outsourced book projects a year. We already have some under consideration. Contact me