Your Year 2000 Survival Guide: A Common Sense Handbook

by Jackie Kessler

Your Year 2000 Survival Guide, a Common Sense Handbook helps you with checklists, exercises, activity timelines end suggestions tailored to your environment, urban, suburban, or rural, cold or warm climate. It assists you in assessing the impact of the Year 2000 on you and your family and helps you to make the necessary plans. Topics covered include food supplies, water, home heating, cooking, lighting, self documentation, asset protection and even things to do to keep busy and have fun. The book provides you with a low-cost, well-organized plan to get through the millennium changeover with minimum discomfort and even some fun.

240 pages, Paperback

First published January 21, 1999

About the author

Some kids want to grow up to be doctors, or movie stars, or political assassins. Me, I wanted to draw comic books. Not Archie comics, either—superhero comic books. Maybe it was all the heavily muscled guys in spandex…

Around the time I was 15, I realized that as much as I enjoyed drawing (note that I’m saying nothing about the quality of those pics), it was a lot of fun putting words in the characters’ mouths. I didn’t know the term “fanfic” back then, but I started writing stories about the X-Men, Alpha Flight, and the Teen Titans. Didn’t do anything with those stories, other than horrify my mother. She asked why I couldn’t write nice stories, you know, about bunnies. Nope—me, I wanted to write about power. About magic. About hot guys in spandex. And about beating those guys bloody and senseless. (In retrospect, maybe I really did want to horrify my mother. Hey, not my fault. When I was a kid, I busted her doodling on the cover of New Teen Titans #6. Argh!)

So maybe it’s ironic that the book I wound up writing had nothing to do with overly muscled men and everything to do with scantily clad women. (Well, temporarily scantily clad.) Oh, right, and demons.

Previously, I was the fantasy editor for Wild Child Publishing. Along with working with terrific authors and editors, I’d been fortunate enough to interview a number of fabulous people for WCP, including Margaret Weis (I think Raistlin was my first crush).

In case you’re wondering, I live in Upstate New York, along with my Loving Husband and two Precious Little Tax Deductions, two cats, and about 9,000 comics. (But actually, that number is now closer to 8,000, thanks to a flooded basement. Alas!)