<font color='black' size='2' face='arial'>Speaking of getting published, my book came out on Dec. 15 - "Thunderbolts Triumphant: the 362nd Fighter Group vs. Germany's Wehrmacht." I wrote it at a somewhat leisurely pace: the first interviews for it were done in 1996.
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<div>And, as is the case with any of these projects, now that it's out people are sharing loads of photos and other material! I received 40 WWII-era photos of the group and their fighter planes yesterday alone...</div>
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<div class="yiv1997376227MsoNormal">On Wed, Jan 9, 2019 at 3:20 PM Lynn Greiner <<a rel="noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:lists@itwriter.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:lists@itwriter.com">lists@itwriter.com</a>> wrote:</div>
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<div class="yiv1997376227MsoNormal">9 days? That’s impressive. For how many words? Hubby’s record was 14 days for his NaNo 50K words, I think, but then there was a ton of editing. I beta read, but my sister acts as ruthless editor, and they have some grand battles when she comes to visit. Serves them both right – she got him to sign up for NaNo the first time during a Scotch-fueled Saturday evening debate over something or other. I, OTOH, was drinking cognac and stayed out of it <span>😊</span></div>
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<div class="yiv1997376227MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> Ipg-smz <<a rel="noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:ipg-smz-bounces@netpress.org" target="_blank" href="mailto:ipg-smz-bounces@netpress.org">ipg-smz-bounces@netpress.org</a>> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Dennisf63<br clear="none"><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, January 9, 2019 3:01 PM<br clear="none"><b>To:</b> <a rel="noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:ipg-smz@netpress.org" target="_blank" href="mailto:ipg-smz@netpress.org">ipg-smz@netpress.org</a><br clear="none"><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Ipg-smz] I'm PUBLISHED!</div>
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<div class="yiv1997376227MsoNormal">I do want to make it very clear that this is the FIRST book I have ever self published. Most of them were flat fee, no royalties. <br clear="none"><br clear="none">That said, back in the 70s it was a lot easier to get published, really by a publisher published, than it is today. I got paid $500 for my first porn novel, got up to as much as $750 for them. I typed the first draft, my wife edited and retyped a clean copy and off it went. I even had one editor that paid me in advance once when $$ were tight. <br clear="none"><br clear="none">Sidebar: The fringe benefits of that arrangement made for a lively marriage, but it was all fiction. Regardless of what I wrote Peggy and I were together for 50 years and we never strayed. <br clear="none">I did have a rather liberated old aunt I sent a book to and she said we must have a very interesting marriage. We did, just the two of us. <br clear="none"><br clear="none">Fastest turnaround? I think it was maybe 9 days from my first key stroke to the post office. <br clear="none"><br clear="none">On 01/09/2019 02:23 PM, Christine Hall wrote:</div>
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