My new book Day Fighters in Defence of the Reich in the UK now

[Don Caldwell]

Tomas --

Go to the Military Book Club site and click the "quick peek":

http://www.militarybookclub.com/page...uId=1073739285

Folks in the USA might want to throw an order their way to reward them for being able to get books so soon -- AFAIK, these are the first to cross the pond. (I've placed an order with them, but their tracking system says my shipment is held up in a Post Office warehouse 100km from here. So it goes...)

Nick --

This is typical of my treatment by Pen & Sword. My book is actually by an imprint, Frontline, but its "publisher" is on sabbatical, managing the London Gefiltefish Festival, among other things, and IMHO P&S is treating my Frontline title as an orphan. Publishers have historically disrespected authors -- their only reason for existence. P&S is the 7th publisher I've dealt with WRT my 7 books, and there will soon be an 8th, as the JG 26 War Diaries are being brought out in softback by someone other than Grub Street, their original publisher. I think I've discussed this here before, but authors need to form a cooperative to produce and market their own books. Self-published books have never been able to break into the conventional distribution system, but that system is permanently broken anyway. My problem is that my interest is in researching and writing, not all that other stuff necessary to get a finished book into a reader's hands.

-- Don