My first connection to the publishing world was an early one, working after school, ripping covers off of past issue magazines for the distributor to return to the publishers for credit. Following a stint in the U.S. Navy, and returning to college to study engineering, I found that the report writing side of the discipline suited me more tha the mechanics. My parallel interest was firearms, and I changed my academic major to journalism and gradually nudged my way into commercial magazines devoted to guns more...