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June 11, 2006
Odds and Ends
I spoke on Saturday (June 10) to the Old Colony Civil War Roundtable at their annual picnic. Rain forced the event inside, and cut down on the crowd, but it still went quite well. I spoke on "Civil War oddities," drawing stories from both of my books. People seemed very enthusiastic, and I sold quite a few books when the shindig was done. I got a note from Joe Scalia, the President of the group, saying how pleased they were. He was especially pleased that they had four propsoective new members show up, and after the talk they all said that they planned to join.
I got an email the otyher day from Staff Sergeant Jonathan P. Farrar USMC, who is working on the Marine Corps Birthday Ball in Charleston SC. He wrote a note asking if I would donate an autographed copy of The Greatest War Stories Never Told to help raise money for the event.
I was happy to do so--in fact I sent them two!!
I received a note from my agent, Arielle Eckstut, that Harper plans to turn my books (along with all the other books on their list) into e-books.
The books have been doing well on Amazon.com since my Memorial Day appearances on Fox and CBS Radio. They're on the front table in all the Barnes and Noble stores, and so I imagine they are doing well there too. And I heard from Harper that Barnes and Noble has already inquired about putting one or both books on the front table for CHristmas, which would be huge. (They did it last year and it was BIG BIG BIG for sales.
Just finished the script for the Godspeed show, I'll be sending that in to The History Channel on Monday.
Posted by rickbeyer at June 11, 2006 04:52 PM
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