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Jon O'Brien
{K:11321} 8/19/2006
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Sure, Jim - you know all about it. It's your legions of readers who needed the heads up.
Apparently the Vanity Press is a bit more mainstream nowadays, thanks to the internet and "print on demand" technology. But a regular publishing house has marketing and distribution capabilities that some poor sod does not. So yeah.. if he wants to make any money he'd best stay awake.
Jon
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Jim Loy
{K:31693} 8/19/2006
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Bureau County, Ill... where I live. I passed through. I know the war, I know the message... I have not forgotten. "Self-published" is also known as a "Vanity press."...
Whatever... He should not be sleeping...
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Jon O'Brien
{K:11321} 8/19/2006
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Thesis turned popular history? "In Black Hawk's Footsteps" (Benjamin R. McLaughlin, 2004, 120 pp., ISBN # 0-9755705-2-8) is self-published, which means the author probably does a lot of leg work trying to flog something with a pretty limited appeal. Although the war was "one of the last major acts of armed Native American resistance to white settlement east of the Mississippi River". Despite this, it "has been largely forgotten by mainstream history. Even in the very land where the battles took place, today’s casual observer would be hard pressed at first glance for evidence that such events happened upon the ground on which they stood. The shortness of the campaign [1832] and the passage of time ... have contributed to the loss of that history."
So there you go. According to the author's website, it has gone through three printings, which is pretty significant, depending on how many issues per printing.
(http://www.ben-mclaughlin.com/inblackhawksfootsteps.html)
Jon
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Jim Loy
{K:31693} 8/19/2006
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Reach in... slap that man!!!! Black Hawk... he should write about something interesting like....
well....
ME!!! Oh, wait.... I do that already.... maybe he should just take up a job as a what-ever-er person... and tell yer husband to kick it into second or third gear and get moving... life is far to short to sleep our way through it.
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Carlen Boersema
{K:6789} 8/19/2006
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Wow, that's one way to ruin your book tour! lol Great capture.
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James Lee
{K:86} 8/19/2006
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I want to reach into the picture and shake him awake. I guess that's part of being a wife to a guy who likes to nap wherever.
Great portrait. It really brings the viewer into the situation.
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