What’s going on with Nimble Books that are in production.
- U.S. PATROL TORPEDO BOATS IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR, 1939-1945, by T. Garth Connelly(pub. 4/6/2010)
- SKEETER USES MANNERS, by C. Michelle Smith, illustrated by Amy Foreman (pub. 5/4/2010)
- A YOUNG CONSERVATIVE’S FIELD GUIDE (with author)
- THE ULTIMATE UNAUTHORIZED GUIDE TO THE HARRY POTTER FANDOM (1st ed. out of print)
- FALLEN WALLS AND FALLEN TOWERS (previously HATCHING THE NATION-STATE) (with author)
- BLOOD ON OUR HANDS (with author)
- HANDBOOK OF FIFTH GENERATION WARFARE (5GW) (needs substantive edit)
- COLD WAR SAGA (needs substantive edit)
- PERSUADER-IN-CHIEF v2.0 (needs substantive edit)
- PROFESSOR BARRISTER’S DINO MYSTERIES #2 — THE ARMORED ALLOSAUR
- THE CLAUSEWITZ ROUNDTABLE
- [Interviews with James M. Cain]
- PT BOATS BEHIND THE SCENES
- PRINCIPLES OF WAR: ARCHDUKE CHARLES
- ECLIPSES OF THE SUN
- POCKET BATTLESHIP ADMIRAL SCHEER (c/e)
- HISTORY OF THE TORPEDO BOAT #8
- Yuri the Lion: School Stories
- HISTORY OF THE TORPEDO BOAT #9
- Two-Power and Double Standards: The Liberal Government and the building of the dreadnought fleet, 1906-1909
- HISTORY OF THE TORPEDO BOAT #10
- SECRETS OF THE MODERN WORLD — Fukuzawa
- The Regia Maria’s MAS Boats in World War II
- Illustrated Guide to Harry Potter Fandom, Volumes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Dear authors,
A quick note to bring you up to date on this month’s activities.
I must apologize that this month I made a few frolics and detours, which put my release schedule a bit behind. Here is what I did accomplish:
- I completed production on one excellent book, volume III of Joe Hind’s DEFINITIVE ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF THE TORPEDO BOAT, but I had hoped to publish two others this month, and they are now on tap for April, along with the others previously scheduled for April.
- I moved the website to another hosting provider this month. This was a necessary distraction because our old provider was prone to unpredictable service interruptions. Things at the new place (PressHarbor.com) seem much better so far.
- The Nimble Books Store was down for a while, but it is now all the way back up.
- I added a public calendar of Upcoming Nimble Events that lists all signings and appearances by Nimble authors. If you want to add an event, just send me an email. If you are tech savvy, you can post your own events to the shared calendar by entering this iCAL address in your calendar program (Outlook, Google, etc.):
http://www.google.com/calendar/ical/nimblebooks.com_i0vi4o8qcguqlnqh1884oirc14@group.calendar.google.com/public/basic.ics
- I established a Twitter presence. To follow me, go to http://twitter.com/nimblebooks.
- It was discovering the Twitter Tools plugin by Alex King that motivated me to explore Twitter: this plugin integrates Twitter and WordPress, so all my Tweets show up in my blog, and blog posts show up on Twitter. I don’t like doing social networking things unless they are additive to my existing activities.
- When you see a message marked “Please RT”, and it is about one of your fellow Nimble authors, please do retweet: we all benefit from building the network around Nimble.
- I am in the process of adding a Help Desk for Nimble Authors that will enable you to file “trouble tickets” when there is something that you have been bugging me to do. The advantage of this over email is that it forces a structure of open & closed tickets that makes it harder for me to lose things in the shuffle. For the test version, see http://www.nimblebooks.com/wordpress/2009/03/help-desk/. Note that I’m still straightening out some bugs and tweaking the look and feel, so keep sending me email as well for now.
- The end of the printer’s accounting period is Friday 4/3, so author’s comp statements and payments should come out towards the end of next week.
On tap for April: publishing a lot of books!
Cordially,
Fred Z.
Some great discussion of Joe Hind’s magnum opus in the thread below. The message board is a great find for anyone interested in MTBs!
The PT Boat Message Board – “The Definitive Illustrated History of the Torpedo Boat”.
From Vince O’Hara, Nimble author and expert on the Italian navy:
Regarding the MAS boats, your choice. The Italians prefer MAS 15. I’ve used that format (in Warship 2008 and 2009) and also MAS15 (Struggle for the Middle Sea). I’ve never seen MAS.15 or MAS-15, but that’s probably because I haven’t looked hard enough.
Naval history is full of acronyms and numeric abbreviations and consistency has proved hard to achieve.
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