The Spy in the Tower is slated to come out on May 1, 2019 (in the UK) and so far, all systems are go. I’ve spent the last month or so reviewing the first proofs, then the second proofs and indexing the whole thing. It’s been a bit of a marathon and rather all-consuming. The […]
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I’m happy to report that we are one step closer to getting the story of Josef Jakobs published! The History Press has added “The Spy in the Tower: the Untold Story of Josef Jakobs, the Last Person to be Executed at the Tower of London” to their roster of books, available on their website. The
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Today was D-Day… submission day of the manuscript. The last few weeks have been serious nose-to-the-grindstone… tidying up all the loose ends and doing multiple re-reads and corrections. After all that activity, it was kind of anti-climactic to hit the “Send” button with two documents (manuscript and photo captions) and twenty photographs. There were no
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Today is a day of significance – the 77th anniversary of Josef Jakobs’ execution at the Tower of London. It also marks “T minus 1 month… the manuscript is due at the The History Press on September 15. Things are slowly coming together. I’ve been pruning the manuscript and then sanding it down. I’ve managed
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Getting a book published is no mean feat. There’s the research, the writing, the re-writing, and more re-writing and maybe some more research. Then a publisher needs to be found and then… then the author has to take their baby and hack it to bits. Seriously. My manuscript is in the 170,000 word range and
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Goodness… I had a sense that publishing a book was an endeavour but… to be frank, it does seem a bit overwhelming! So, I am getting organized. Here’s the plan of attack and some aspects of the book publishing obstacle course. Preliminaries Sign Publishing Contract This feels a bit like I’m signing away my first
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Great news! The History Press has agreed to publish my manuscript on Josef Jakobs! It’s been a very long journey to reach this point, and it’s not over yet. The manuscript is a bit of a ragtag thing at the moment with dangling footnotes, unincorporated notes and formatting issues. It needs an index, a table
For the last 5 years, or perhaps slightly longer (if we include research time), I’ve been working on a book that tells the tale of Josef’s life. It’s been a tough slog sometimes, and the manuscript has gone through numerous permutations and revisions. I do think that I finally have something that is moderately presentable
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