Had my second book accepted by a publisher today!
Due out sometime in Spring 2009.
It's a good day overall.....................
That's two!
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Very inspiring! Once you get one published, I bet they like having a track record.
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Re: That's two!
Congrats.Flybrick wrote:Had my second book accepted by a publisher today!
Due out sometime in Spring 2009.
It's a good day overall.....................
Alas I have not had any such luck, for one of the following reasons:
http://www.theonion.com/content/statsho ... l_rejected
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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.
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.
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Re: That's two!
Quite an accomplishment! Something to be proud of, for sure!Flybrick wrote:Had my second book accepted by a publisher today!
Due out sometime in Spring 2009.
It's a good day overall.....................
Congratulations!
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Excellent! Congratulations! I need to get your first one for my Dad (Berlin Airlft participant)
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