For years the Griffins did much of the work on Top Drawer themselves. Each year they spent days making copies of the submitted writings on the copy machine. Every spring we would go down to the library. The covers of the books were soft, like school folders. But now Friends of the Library is beginning to produce the books with hard covers, sending them out to be professionally bound.
Plans are to redo all the back issues too.
The collection is currently available on the Western Library Network, which means it can be obtained throughout the northwest United States via interlibrary loan. Workers at the Homer Library are in the process of making it available nationwide by the end of the year. A few Top Drawer authors have gone on to be more widely published. Joy herself has a book titled Home Sweet Homestead about her homesteading days north of Fairbanks that is available at several retail outlets. The Hudson or The Yukon , Richard Robinson's The Sun Dogs , and Bill Fry's Witcher are all popular books that started out in the Top Drawer collection.