LightSpeed Publishing, Inc. was originally founded in 1995 to produce and publish material to help everyday readers better understand and use their computers. Our company has served as a valuable resource for the publishing and technical industries for fifteen years. Early on, we self-published a few of our own titles including The Coin and Stamp Collectors' Electronic Handbook and The Digital Crystal Ball, which were distributed by Publishers Group West. We now specialize in creating and packaging general non-fiction titles including music and pop culture books and how-to topics. Simply put, packaging means preparing materials for other companies to publish and distribute. Our clients have included Sterling Publishing, Microsoft Press, International Masters Publishing, Peachpit Press, The Coriolis Group, Sybex, Ventana Communications, Waite Group Press, DeAvila-Duncan (McGraw-Hill), and New World Library.

LightSpeed Publishing employs up to twenty subcontractors to handle all facets of your projects. These include a team of writers, editors, designers, desktop publishers, illustrators, photographers, indexers, proofreaders, and technical consultants. With over fifty books produced or contributed to, and two long-running, successful “continuity (subscription) card” series (a total of over 1500 gatefold full-color pieces) delivered, we have never disappointed a client.

Founder/President Scott Calamar has more than 30 years of professional experience in project, personnel, and company management. His skills include writing, editing, development and publishing books, newspapers, magazines, software, subscription cards, and Web sites. Scott's career began in weekly newspapers in Southeastern Connecticut and Northern California. He was a pioneer in the technical writing industry, contributing light-hearted tutorial articles to computer magazines in the early 1980s. Scott has worked for a developer of ESL tests, and served as editor-in-chief of Waite Group Press, a ground-breaking computer book company. After helping to build that packager from three people into a multi-million dollar publisher with over 30 employees and numerous titles on the computer best-seller list, he left to start LSP with former business partner Joel Fugazzotto. Joel left LightSpeed in 1999.

Scott is technically savvy on both Macintosh and Windows platforms and adept in Web site design and various forms of multimedia and computer troubleshooting. In his spare time, he is a songwriter / musician who multitracks original compositions and occasionally performs locally at open mics or jam sessions. Scott founded and runs AshlandLiveMusic.com in Ashland, Oregon, where he has resided since 2001. He also writes an occasional music review for local publications and bands.You can visit his personal Web site, Earthshine.com to hear many of his songs.