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ABOUT SIM PUBLISHING

SIM PUBLISHING was founded in 2004 by Gary Sim, AT.AIBC. It is intended primarily as a venue for publication and marketing of writing, research, and artwork by Gary Sim. Self-publishing completely eases the difficulties and angst of trying to have work published by someone else. A few years ago Sim attempted to interest a number of local publishers in his work-in-progress Looking For Maud. Considerable time, expense, and effort was put into the proposal, yet absolutely nothing resulted. Determined not to waste any more production time chasing publishers around, he decided that he would simply publish his own work.

The flagship project for Sim Publishing is Art and Artists in Exhibition: Vancouver 1890 - 1950. This CD-ROM based web site is written to be compact, fast, and universally functional on any computer or PDA with a web browser. A loathing of programs such as Flash, Java, and Acrobat ensures that users will not need to waste any of their own time waiting for "intros" to load, nor will they need to download plug-ins or programs to enable use of the information. Needless graphics, singing and dancing web pages, and useless glitz are totally absent from Sim Publishing projects, which are intended to be useful, not pretty.

A number of other projects are slowly gestating towards publication, including Railway Tales, a collection of stories from the publisher's nine years spent working on the B.C. Rail Rock Gangs, and a collection of poems. Refer also to Links and Just For Fun for further examples of the author's writing.