Volume 1 has gone to the printers!
After a quick re-jig with three images for the usual reason, even after Key Publishing contacted those concerned as I was getting nowhere. So we have some choice photos from a couple of image libraries just to get the job done and the thing put to bed. Sadly it’s going to lack a few un-submitted edits, and I did ask, now if there’s ever a reprint….Ha. I’m told the books will be back by the end of next month.
As to Vol 2, nothing’s been said yet, but the original contract was for two volumes so we’ll see. That I think it will sell more simply because TSR2 is in it, that some people will buy anything with this in is beside the point. Though it also means the people would wouldn’t get back to us so we could finish Vol 1 will have to be sorted, as they have one of only two surviving and it would be nice to include my photo of it. Might even call in and knock on a few doors in the meantime!
A trip to Stamford in a week’s time to meet up with a my fellow ex-RAF Harrier engineers will be a good start to what should be an exciting month, as the week after it’s off to LHR (That’s London Heathrow to the uninitiated) for a flight to MIA, a week in the Florida Keys, a week “doing Disney” (again…) and flight back from MCO (look them up!) by which time I might finally get to see my name and photos in book form. Unfortunately, work are dragging everyone on our team to Birmingham for a planning meeting the day I break up; brain checked out you’d think? No, probably more a case of making a point in no uncertain terms and still having a job to come back to!
Which means, unless something exciting, interesting or miraculous occurs in the next couple of weeks, the next update should see a photo of Volume 1 in physical form, being proudly held aloft by a me shaped lobster.
