Nice ad.

thanks to the five Ags who gave a star - means a lot!

any suggestions?

Soraya Torrens is the actress and is working on a second video now so if you have something easy that should be changed let me know.

I am also considering doing a third marketing video on the battlefield with a friend who is a personal trainer- and have some other senior military officers be at different parts of the battlefield.

would that be interesting or overkill?

also here is the actual website for the book which I have had created in working with an IT professional

please anyone interested sign up on the bottom of the page to be alerted to when and where to buy the book!

should be several events in Texas we will plan with the publisher!

Third Winchester: Presidents on the Battlefield book

LMCane said:

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thanks to the five Ags who gave a star - means a lot!

any suggestions?

Soraya Torrens is the actress and is working on a second video now so if you have something easy that should be changed let me know.

I am also considering doing a third marketing video on the battlefield with a friend who is a personal trainer- and have some other senior military officers be at different parts of the battlefield.

would that be interesting or overkill?

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I don't think it would be overkill. You are trying to market your book. Fresh approaches are superior to the same stuff over and over, at least in my mind. Who know what will catch the eye or trigger someone into getting interested enough to buy the book.

Congratulations on writing it. I have started (long ago) compiling family stories to bind and give to my parents' grandchildren and great grandchildren, most of whom never knew my parents. No plot lines, no research, just telling stories. Hardest thing I have ever done. Can't imagine the amount of research you did to put this together!

one safe place said:

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LMCane said:

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thanks to the five Ags who gave a star - means a lot!

any suggestions?

Soraya Torrens is the actress and is working on a second video now so if you have something easy that should be changed let me know.

I am also considering doing a third marketing video on the battlefield with a friend who is a personal trainer- and have some other senior military officers be at different parts of the battlefield.

would that be interesting or overkill?

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I don't think it would be overkill. You are trying to market your book. Fresh approaches are superior to the same stuff over and over, at least in my mind. Who know what will catch the eye or trigger someone into getting interested enough to buy the book.

Congratulations on writing it. I have started (long ago) compiling family stories to bind and give to my parents' grandchildren and great grandchildren, most of whom never knew my parents. No plot lines, no research, just telling stories. Hardest thing I have ever done. Can't imagine the amount of research you did to put this together!

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Many thanks!

as it was my first book I actually did TOO MUCH RESEARCH. I spent about five years going to every single archive and library and museum all across the country that had information on the Shenandoah Valley campaigns and the units involved.

so now I have to cut down the book and make it into two different books. It is literally painful to cut these great stories and quotations!

good advice thanks.

Welcome.

Yeah for me the stories would be the thing. The movement of this group or that group, while pertinent to any battle, doesn't have the same personal aspect as do individual stories. I had a book (loaned to a high school friend and he has not returned it, lol) called "Dear Sister, Civil War Letters to a Sister in Alabama" and it is letters Lucinda Branscomb got from her four brothers during the war.

My wife's father, class of '38, wrote her mom hundreds of letters when he was away in WWII. She started trying to transcribe them but gave up.

I admire your dedication!

one safe place said:

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Welcome.

Yeah for me the stories would be the thing. The movement of this group or that group, while pertinent to any battle, doesn't have the same personal aspect as do individual stories. I had a book (loaned to a high school friend and he has not returned it, lol) called "Dear Sister, Civil War Letters to a Sister in Alabama" and it is letters Lucinda Branscomb got from her four brothers during the war.

My wife's father, class of '38, wrote her mom hundreds of letters when he was away in WWII. She started trying to transcribe them but gave up.

I admire your dedication!

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Most of my book is exactly as you state- letters home, newspaper articles about the people involved, stories from West Point.

and then it's written like a novel tracing their youth in the 1830s to then the start of the war up to Third Winchester and what happens to them after the war.

I'm trying to pattern it after 'Guns of August" which is fantastic.

but she used ZERO FOOTNOTES so I don't understand how anyone can win a Pulitzer Prize in non-fiction with zero footnotes!!

so annoying!! I have over 3,000 footnotes!!