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“I tend to be a slow adopter of new technologies but eventually I come around.  I wrote six books on yellow legal pads and an electric typewriter before buying my first computer.  Likewise with a website: I was one of those people, private, with no zeal for self-advertising, to whom a personal website seemed one notch less desirable than mounting a huge neon sign on the top of my house, big as a school bus, in the shape of a lobster, with claws that blinked open and closed.  This lobster sign, in glowing orange, would have said: BUY QUAMMEN’S BOOKS.  Ugh, no thanks.  Then, in 2011, some months before my book Spillover was to be published, sensible friends persuaded me that, in the 21st century, if I wanted to reach a broader audience, I should have a website.  Um, okay, maybe.  And they recommended Dan Smith to design it.  Thank god.

I’ve now worked with Dan for more than ten years, and he is my guy.  With the skill and grace of a musician (which he is), he designed my website.  He made it elegantly sleek, and simple enough that even I can add updates, news.  He created a powerful, gruesomely cool video trailer for Spillover.  He helped me mount posts when I was just out of the Congo or the Yellowstone backcountry.  He has stood by me, the web wizard this Luddite needs, and he has been deft, understanding, and responsive in doing it.  I look forward to working with him further.  He’s an artist in this guild, and he speaks the lingo.  He’s the translator, the curator, the framer.  Think about it.