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It can be an honest way to talk about a problem. My point was that in my experience it is usually used to make someone look stupid. I use it on my kid all the time in an attempt to get him to realize the stupidity of some of the remarks that come out of his mouth. I have he impression lately that it is working as now he is starting to realize how dumb he sound as soon as he says some stuff. The trick now is to get him to think before he opens his mouth and makes himself look like an idiot. I am slowly getting there.
They are at it again. GERMANY ARRESTS 3 AUSCHWITZ GUARD SUSPECTS The lengths the Germans will go to to prove their credibility as Nazi haters is unbelievable. Outside of fanatics who thinks going after these elderly men serves justice?
I have always thought the Socratic Method was a debate tactic and a way to make your opponent look like a moron.
Truk was the biggest Japanese base in the South Pacific. The raid in the papers was just the largest. It was never invaded because Allied Planners felt it was too well defended to be taken without suffering unreasonable casualties among invading forces. Instead, it was continuously bombed throughout the war and bypassed in the island hopping campaign. It was not uncommon for planes bombing nearby islands to save a few and swing past Truk on their way home. If I remember my numbers right the only place in the Pacific that had more tonnage of ordnance donated to it was mainland Japan.Here is a listing of the known shipwrecks in Truk Lagoon
I started writing it years ago just for myself. I had in mind having a quick reference style book that would fit in my ruck and not weigh a ton and did not want to keep the POS aviator binder I toted around for years in the army. I never intended on publishing it at all. I first started thinking about publishing it last year and was rejected by two different publishers before I decided to self-publish. Self-publication over Createspace is ridiculously easy. I am not doing it for the money. I hope the book is worthwhile and judging by the reviews I have gotten, the prepper community likes it, or they are all blowing smoke for free content on their sites.I have noticed that a slight uptick in sales happens after a review goes live. I make enough per copy to keep me writing the revised edition and I plan on putting hat out next year sometime, probably late spring. I could not make a living off of the sales though. I make about $5 per hardcopy and a little more per eBook. Of course, if you buy a book like this as an e-copy you are a moron and whatever is in the book won't help you for the time period it is designed for because you will probably be dead.
Still, however, I think I prefer reading physical books to electronic books.
I am with you 100%. No piece of electronics beats the feel and heft of a real book. Plus I find it easier to find something in a real book than digging through an ebook.
Marketing is a pain. So far, it seems to be paying off though. As more reviews get put up on survival sites I am seeing a steady uptick in sales that I assume will plateau at some point and from then on get a steady trickle of sales until I release the second edition.BTW, if any of you guys buy or have bought the book. Don't buy the Kindle version. There are serious issues with how the kindle is currently rendering the illustrations. The problems are so severe that i am considering pulling it from eBook availability a all. EBooks are OK for pure text but getting them to reliably display illustrations across platforms is a nightmare.
I got a 10″ Windows 8.1 tablet for Christmas and so far i like it for reading better than my now long in the tooth Kindle.
I figure that I was there and so don;t need to see a movie about it and realize all the garbage they try to pass off as reality about something of which the filmmakers actually know nothing.
Politicians and the media have been trying to shape perceptions of Iraq and Afghanistan since the day we started fighting. I cannot speak to the quality of any of the movies about the wars because I have not, and probably will not, watch a single one of them.
That's a great achievement! Congratulations and all the best for your masterpiece. 🙂 BTW as a member of WCF, do I have a kind of discount?? 😉
I tell you what, If you buy it straight from me I will discount the list price of 14.95 by 50%.
I didn't cover sea survival because in a societal collapse situation if you are stuck at sea you are probably going to die anyway. Plus sea survival is probably a book all on its own. I also did not cover snow survival or weather survival in particular. I covered wilderness survival from a general , weather immaterial perspective.
They actually had me send them a list of questions for them to ask. The interview is on the 11th so I will post an update then about how it goes. I am pretty curious myself. I tend to pass when authors ask me if I want to interview them when they solicit reviews on B&BR because I can;t think of anything an author can say that I would find remotely interesting. I am more interested in what the reviewer thinks when I read book reviews.
