FAQs
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What is the focus of Constellation Press?
We want to awaken the sleeping creativity in inventors, artists, and entrepreneurs.
To advise, encourage, inspire, and challenge them to realize their personal or professional dreams and capacities.
We publish on themes of business tips, fine art photography and photojournalism, practical adventure, and a well-lived life.
Our books could be as applicable as memoirs as they are as educational references.
What is your refund policy?
At this time, individual consumer book purchases made direct from the publisher cannot be returned. For booksellers returns, yes, please see terms below.
Likewise, all digital product sales such as e-books and other downloads are final, not refundable, and limited to author-specified access permissions.
What are your Booksellers terms?
We offer the standard wholesale trade discount of 55% to qualified Booksellers.
We accept back intact returns of hard-copy books from booksellers. E‑books are also available in 7 digital formats, upon request. See our store.
Under normal circumstances, shipping and delivery typically occur within 7 to 10 business days from order. Books ship 30 to the carton, larger orders by the palette.
Cancellation of orders must be accompanied up by a faxed copy.
All returns based on damage claims must be indicated immediately ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ), and shipped back in its original packaging.
How can I arrange an author’s interview, media byte, or book signing?
Promotional materials, video and images can be sent, and events may be arranged by sending your inquiry and details to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .
A PDF press kit for You Can Do It!: Inspiration and Lessons from an Inventor, Entrepreneur, and Sailor is available for download here.
When did Stan Dashew start writing his memoirs for You Can Do It!?
Over fifty years ago, during a cruise on his sailboat Royal Fortune, Stan wrote a letter home telling of his desire to write a book about his experiences and adventures.
Nearly forty years later, he started to take pen to paper, yet—busy with business--he needed egging on by his daughter Leslie who then initiated taped interviews.
Those transcripts and new interviews, along with 100-year-old archives of photos, business letters, personal correspondence, annual reports, and magazine article tearsheets,
were compiled into a manuscript by his co-author Josef Klus over the following 10 years.
What are your Submission Guidelines?
Although we like to encourage authors in the pursuit of publication and their vocation, currently, we are not accepting new submissions.
How did Constellation get its name?
From the reflective inspiration one receives when gazing at the night’s heavenly expanse, in far away places, sheltered from city light and tumult.
What is forthcoming for Constellation Press?
By popular request, in 2011, we plan to release second edition of You Can Do It! illustrated with Dashew’s private collection of his own photography.
We are also discussing coffee table book photo essays on themes such as portraits, travel, land, sea, and sky, as well as abstract photographic art.
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What is your Privacy Policy?
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