My trip to the US Navy Reserve Fleet in Bremerton, WA

Nice pics Jeff. BTW I bought the hardback version of your book. Its very good and I appreciate the entertainment it gave me while I was in the hospital for the flu. I had my girlfriend bring me some books to read while I was laid up for three days. Had a bad stomach flu and couldnt keep fluids down so I had to stay on the IV till I could eat and drink again. It took my mind off me feeling like crap for the time I was reading it. Thanks again.

EternalVigil said:

Nice pics Jeff. BTW I bought the hardback version of your book. Its very good and I appreciate the entertainment it gave me while I was in the hospital for the flu. It took my mind off me feeling like crap for the time I was reading it. Thanks again.

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The thanks is all mine. Thank you for reading it and I am really glad you enjoyed it. Please tell others. Since I am self-published, word of mouth is my good friend!

Hope you are feeling better. Gods speed.

The thanks is all mine. Thank you for reading it and I am really glad you enjoyed it. Please tell others. Since I am self-published, word of mouth is my good friend!

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if bit offtopic, but what kind of book(s) have you written?

Gollevainen said:

if bit offtopic, but what kind of book(s) have you written?

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:nana:

Gollevainen said:

if bit offtopic, but what kind of book(s) have you written?

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Well, I wasn't going to link to my own books...but I see the webmaster did just above this response (humble thanks), so I will just say this.

The series is a fictional, techno-thriller novel about a future conflict beween the PRC and her allies and the US and her allies. Purely fiction...sort of like a Clancy novel with an attitude...and more action from the start, sort of like he used to do when he got started.

interesting to hear...not to admiting anything....(you didn't hear anything, i DIDN'T say that the was a bit writter's fault in myself... )

so this is a full-leght novel...hmm and did you mentioned it was selfpublished? if you mind, it would be interesting to hear more of this book and writtings in general, tough perhaps in another topic?...tough it still doesen't mean i have any abitious towards writting...nor at least you didn't hear it from me...

Gollevainen said:

it still doesen't mean i have any abitious towards writting...nor at least you didn't hear it from me...

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Hehehe...it was a lot of fun...but it was also a lot of work. A LOT of work over about a four year period.

There are five full, length novels in the series. When I was completed I put out one very large hardback novel with smaller type print that contains all five.

I used this company to make the books and distribute them. They were very reasonable. They get them out to Amazon, Barnes & Noble and quite a few other online places. LightningSource is owned by a very large book wholesaler, Ingram.

I did all of the formatting, including the cover art, and then converted an MSWord document to Adobe (using a full version of Adobe Acrobat and the distiller), which is the format they require. I also released them all as eBooks in both the Adobe Reader and MS Reader formats.

With a company like LIGHTNIONGSOURCE around, virtually anyone can self publish and then have the material out on Amazon. Of course...it is left to you to do your own advertising. Most of mine is word of mouth through various forums, friends, relatives, etc.

did you ever planned to try and offer you book to any big (or should we say traditional) publisher?

and tough still not admitting anything...does this publisher allow just anything being published or do they have some sort of standarts for the general level of the books?

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did you ever planned to try and offer you book to any big (or should we say traditional) publisher? ...does this publisher allow just anything being published or do they have some sort of standarts for the general level of the books?

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I had an agent for a while and he shopped it around...but it became clear it was more of "who you know" than "what you know" for an unknown like me...and I didn't know anyone.

So, I just did it myself.

LightningSource is very professional. They are not a publisher, just a "Print on Demand" distributor. They expect you to be an operating company (so I set up my own, one-man business) and they have agreements that you sign.

The result is I have been able to sell several thosuand copies on my own.

I believe if it ever did get the exposure...it would sell tens of thousands...but being the author, of course I would think that, hehehe.

proplem is that theres little or no change to get it translated to finnish in your resources...

but these agents...i came cross to them whit foreing literature, but in Finnish culture, they just seems not exictence. How did you get one? Do you have to know one from before or...?