Okay, with that "come-on" headline, let's talk. The seed for this blog was an article in the June 12 Sunday New York Times. The summary of the piece is this: Aliens may not exist near Earth, but new discoveries imply that they once did, at least somewhere in the universe. In addition, the July, 2016…
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June 10-11 HamCom in Irving, Texas
JK (Jim) George will be taking part in both days of the Texas HamCom amateur radio gathering in Irving, TX on Friday, June 10 and Saturday, June 11. He will be signing copies of "Contact Sport," his new book about the World Radiosport Team Championship in USA's New England in the summer of 2014, as…
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Marketing a Book is Hard!
The Essay in the New York Times Book Review of May 1st comes to mind, since Tony Perrottet wrote a great commentary on “Building the Brand.” I commented on my quest to do just that in the recent June newsletter, so Perrottet’s remarks were preaching to a one-man choir. As he wrote, paraphrased a bit, writing…
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Reviews in “CQ” and “QST” magazines
Contact Sport: A Story of Champions, Airwaves, and a One-Day Race Around the World has been reviewed in both major U.S. amateur radio magazines. This is most unusual, and the reviews have been universally positive. The CQ book review, a full-page commentary on page 56 in the January, 2016 issue, says, "This is a book…
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