Lee Klancher

4909 Shoal Creek Boulevard Austin, TX 78756 USA
Website: http://www.leeklancher.com
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Professional Experience

I own and operate Octane Press, a book publishing and packaging company. My company offers turn-key publishing solutions, and can have stunning book projects authored, photographed, published, printed, delivered, marketed, and sold. Our client list includes Crain Communications and Source Interlink, and we are adept at creating clever, popular books out of existing content. I'm also an accomplished author, and my photography and writing appears in books, calendars and feature articles for national magazines including Men's Journal, Motorcyclist and Draft.

Expertise

Book Author
20 Years
Editor
20 Years
Photographer
15 Years

Specialty

Books & Literature
18 Years
Outdoors
25 Years
Travel
20 Years

Industries


Academia Teaching
3 Years
Book Publishing Consumer
20 Years
Magazine - Large Consumer/National magazines
10 Years

Total Media Industry Experience

20 Years

Media Client List (# assignments last 2 yrs)

Motorcycle Escape magazine (3-5), Motorcycle Product News magazine (3-5), Octane Press (3-5)

Corporate Client List (# assignments last 2 yrs)

Crain Communications (1-2), Source Interlink (1-2)

Other Work History

Features Editor, Motorcycle Escape; Outdoors Editor, ATV Rider; Adventure Travel Editor, Dirt Rider; Editor-in-Chief, MBI Publishing; Senior Acquisitions Editor, MBI Publishing

Technical Skills

Sound editing, photo editing, text editing, GPS navigation

Foreign Language Skills

Speak, read and write rudimentary Spanish; can order a beer in seven languages

Computer Skills

InDesign, Photoshop, Photo Mechanic, MS Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Quark Xpress

Equipment

Canon AF film and digital SLR (1DS, 10D, 1N, 70-200/2.8, 24-70/2.8, 50/2.0 (macro), 14/2.8, 550EX); Nikon Coolscan 4000 slide scanner, Canon 2200 large format printer, Olympus digital audio recorder, Garmin GPS V and Zumo 550

Work Permits & Visas

current Brazilian Visa

References

Dennis Pernu, Editor, MBI Publishing; Zack Miller, V.P. Publishing, MBI Publishing; Jamie Elvidge, Editor, Motorcycle Escape

Associations

American Society of Journalists and Authors, Society of Professional Journalists, Independent Book Publishers Association

Showcase

Books and Calendars

Motorcycle Dream Garages / Thanks!
(Motorbooks 10/6/2009)
Illustrated book.
Vintage Farm Tractors 2009
(Voyageur Press 7/1/2008)
The market's best-selling farm tractor calendar features beautifully restored old iron in attractive settings.
Farmall Tractors Calendar 2009
(Voyageur Press 7/1/2008)
Oversize calendar featuring perfectly restored farm tractors photographed around the country.
Tractor in the Pasture
(MBI Publishing 8/1/2003)
Cofee table book with photos of old tractors in scenic settings.
Farm Trucks 2006
(MBI Publishing 7/1/2005)
Calendar of trucks working on farms in the US, South America, and Australia
How To Build Your Dream Garage
(MBI Publishing 6/1/2008)
If you want to rebuild a beloved ride, house a prized collector car, or spend some quality time with a motorcycle, here is the book for you. An essential tool for building your dream garage, this book takes readers from inspiration to reality in engaging and easy-to-follow steps.

Magazine Features

The Religion of the Ride
(Motorcycle Cruiser 5/1/2005)
Riding and religion meet on a motorcycle tour of southern Minnesota
Finding Gold: Riding South Dakota's Black Hills
(ATV Rider magazine 7/1/2005)
Chasing Wild Bill's legacy in the vast riding area near the tacky temples in Deadwood, South Dakota.
Open For Business: Touring Louisiana Post-Katrina
(Motorcycle Escape 6/1/2006)
A visit to New Orleans for the bittersweet Mardis Gras of 2006 finds the town and its inhabitants battered but not beaten.
A Tropical Feast
(Motorcycle Escape 4/1/2004)
Finding suadade and allegria on a two-week-long tour of the south coast of Brazil.
Riding the Outback
(Dirt Rider 4/1/2001)
Crossing pathes with saltwater crocodiles, virgin beaches, and the Telegraph Track during a 2,000-mile trip through the Australian Outback
Wide Awake in Alaska
(Escape magazine 4/1/2004)
A visit to the Gracious House near Denali National Park
Off the Beaten Path in Alaska
(Motorcycle Escape 6/1/2006)
On a 2000-mile ride across Alaska, Peter Peil and I find that the best parts of the state exist at the end of the worst roads. We visit with an amateur bear photographer in Manley Hot Springs, cross the Brooks Range on the Dalton Highway, and encounter a brown bear on the way to McCarthy.
Speeding Past Fifty
(Robb Report Motorcycling 8/1/2007)
A ride in Michigan's upper peninsula with off-road race legend Dick Burleson finds the 58-year-old man living life with the verve and energy of a man one-third his age.

Reviews

Tractor in the Pasture Review
(Milwaukee Journal-Sentinal 2/3/2003)
Review of Tractor in the Pasture
Radio Interivew
(Minnesota Public Radio 11/4/2003)
Radio interview with MPR's David Molpus about Tractor in the Pasture