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Originally Posted by Siko54
The illustrated study Classic publications from 2008 - only available secondhand at exorbitant prices. Looks fantastic btw  |
Ah yes. That was the other one that came out from Ian Allan. I spent a half day with the publisher who bought the Ian Allan military titles. He wanted a reprint to cover the 'F' and 'G' series also. I told him that I did not have sufficient information and photos to do justice to those two variants. I wasn't going to sign up to something that I could potentially not do, or do justice to. He insisted that he wanted a reprint to go through the whole series of Bf 110 variants. I told him that wasn't going to come from me. And that was where it was left. I had no responsibility, nor contractual obligation, to this new company.
They bought the rights to my books that came out via Ian Allan (which I was not told about by either party), that were printed by methods that were no longer used (i.e. they had the useless plates but none of the text or photographs), and the boss of the new company expected me to dance to their tune. No mate, I decide the content of my books, you've been 'sold a pup' (in terms of the material passed to you by Ian Allan), and I ain't playing your game.
The above might sound harsh, but it's simply the way I operate. I have dealt with others since then, most satisfactorily.
And the thing is: I have the complete work, both text and photographs, on my PC's hard drive. Had he simply gone for a reprint, we could have moved forward with it. Instead, I moved on and did other things.
Apologies for the long post, but that is a small insight as to what goes on behind the scenes sometimes that the general public usually never get to know about.