Book Binding

[image error] One of the most satisfying things about having a book out there floating around is the way it’s resurrected old connections. Since publication last November, The Sky Behind Me has sold well, and received several fine reviews. Thanks to all my readers, and reviewers, it means a lot. But the connections have been pretty amazing: a fellow pilot from Vietnam contacted me after nearly forty years; then another one, a man who was my executive officer in the company; several more colleagues from aviation, and the Air Medical field and even a man whose book about his escape from the Nazis in WW-2 tracked me down to swap reviews. Frank Shatz wrote Reports from a distant place , an astonishing tale of narrow escape and dangerous travel to get out of Nazi Germany. Another writer, Bill Brady contacted me. Bill’s book, World War Two, Cause and Effect is one of the more thoroughly researched and documented non-fiction books I’ve read about the War.
The other day I received an e-mail that came through my website. It was from a woman named Carol. Her family lived up the street from me when I was growing up on Riverview Drive in Columbus. Carol had heard her brothers Jim and Bill talking about my book, and e-mailed me. I haven’t seen Carol for..? Jeez, I hate to think how many years. A lot. It’s this kind of connecting, call it book binding that makes all the promotional headaches and tedium worth it when I’d rather be writing.