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That's two!
Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2008 8:03 pm
by Flybrick
Had my second book accepted by a publisher today!
Due out sometime in Spring 2009.
It's a good day overall.....................
Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2008 8:05 pm
by PlacentiaSoccerMom
Congratulations!
Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2008 8:08 pm
by silvercamaro
Wonderful, Flybrick! Can you tell us more about this one?
Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2008 8:27 pm
by kayrharris
Very good news indeed.
Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2008 9:37 pm
by Ritterskoop
Very inspiring! Once you get one published, I bet they like having a track record.
Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2008 6:09 am
by peacock2121
What a great thing!
Big Boy clothes and a second novel all in one year.
How you gonna top that?
Re: That's two!
Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2008 6:36 am
by earendel
Flybrick wrote:Had my second book accepted by a publisher today!
Due out sometime in Spring 2009.
It's a good day overall.....................
Congrats.
Alas I have not had any such luck, for one of the following reasons:
http://www.theonion.com/content/statsho ... l_rejected
Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2008 6:51 am
by christie1111
WooHooo!!!!!!
WTGo Brick!
I haven't asked my Dad yet about your first one. I'll get a chance at Easter and let you know his comments.
Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2008 6:55 am
by MarleysGh0st
Congratulations!
Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2008 7:35 am
by geoffil
Great news! What are the titles of your books?
Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2008 5:02 pm
by Flybrick
Sorry for the delay in responding, can't do it at work anymore....
My first book was "Beaufighters in the Night," a non-fiction WWII night fighter squadron story.
This one is tentatively titled "MAGNUM! The Wild Weasels in Desert Storm"
Wild Weasels are specially configured fighter aircraft whose sole purpose in life is to seek out and destroy an enemy's air defenses, particularly his SAMs (surface to air missiles - remember the U-2 shootdown in the Soviet Union in 1960? That was Francis Gary Powers' jet hit by a SA-2 SAM).
In this case, the jets were Vietnam-era F-4Gs who, before the war (1991), thought they were going against one of the best air defense systems in the world. The guys thought they'd lose 30-40% of their numbers like their predecessors in Vietnam.
Based upon one pilot's journal - he expressed quite a bit more than "I'm a fighter pilot" - I gathered several dozen other Weasels and put their experiences into a pretty good, I think, read. You get quite a variety of rememberances from guys who flew the same mission, but remember it quite differently. I took pains to illustrate that war is like that - my experience can be very different from someone else who was there but in a different jet.
"Magnum," by the way, is the radio call one makes when shooting a SAM-hunting missile. One has to go toe-to-toe with the SAM and, usually, only one participant in that particular dance walks away.
Re: That's two!
Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2008 5:12 pm
by T_Bone0806
Flybrick wrote:Had my second book accepted by a publisher today!
Due out sometime in Spring 2009.
It's a good day overall.....................
Quite an accomplishment! Something to be proud of, for sure!
Congratulations!
Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2008 10:20 pm
by ulysses5019
Time for a new avatar!
Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2008 6:09 am
by Flybrick
Time for a mini-contest:
Anyone know what "YGBSM" stands for on the Wild Weasel patch.
I believe the story.......
Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2008 6:57 am
by kayrharris
If you're allowed to Google:
"You Gotta Be Shittin' Me"
Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2008 9:13 am
by ulysses5019
Time for a mini-contest:
Anyone know what "YGBSM" stands for on the Wild Weasel patch.
I'm glad I could be of help.
Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2008 11:11 am
by tlynn78
Excellent! Congratulations! I need to get your first one for my Dad (Berlin Airlft participant)
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