[Ipg-smz] I'm PUBLISHED!

[bucholtzc at aol.com]

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. 
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...
--Chris Bucholtz


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From: Evan Schuman <eschuman at thecontentfirm.com>
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Cc: 'Dennis Fowler' <dennisf63 at wildblue.net>
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Subject: Re: [Ipg-smz] I'm PUBLISHED!  Congratulations! (I never realized that Computer Shopper was making anyone rich...)  Writing longform is a real talent. I've never been able to master it -- it takes me forever just to get down one lousy short story...  Barbara
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http://www.brooklynwriter.com      On Wed, Jan 9, 2019 at 3:20 PM Lynn Greiner <lists at itwriter.com> wrote:
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 😊  From: Ipg-smz <ipg-smz-bounces at netpress.org> On Behalf Of Dennisf63
Sent: Wednesday, January 9, 2019 3:01 PM
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Subject: Re: [Ipg-smz] I'm PUBLISHED! 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.  

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. 

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. 
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.  

Fastest turnaround? I think it was maybe 9 days from my first key stroke to the post office. 

On 01/09/2019 02:23 PM, Christine Hall wrote:
On 1/9/19 2:02 PM, Lynn Greiner wrote: 
My husband has self-published 6 novels - it's quite do-able. The hard part 
is generating the words (he got his kick in the pants via NaNoWriMo). 

 -- Dennis FowlerP. O. Box 70Otego, NY 13825dennisf63 at wildblue.net-- 
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