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Freeper Travis McGee's book, "Enemies Foreign and Domestic", goes to print!
www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com ^
| July 14, 2003
| Jeff Head
Posted on 07/14/2003 8:02:31 AM PDT by Jeff Head
Freeper Travis McGee, has finished his much anticipated novel, Enemies Foreign and Domestic, and it has been sent off to print. His web site indicates it will be shipping in 3-4 weeks.
![](http://www.enemiesforeignanddomestic.com/bookcover.jpg)
Click the Cover to go to the EFAD Site
He has 20 chapters of the book available online as excerpts, so you can get a real good feel of the book right there on the web site before ever ordering it.
My own review of the book, which I have been privileged to read in its entirety, is as follows...
Enemies Foreign & Domestic is as compelling a fictional novel about liberty and the 2nd amendment as you will ever read. It is packed with real life issues right off today's headlines and the political camps on both sides of the issue. It is also just a good, old-fasioned barnstorming novel that you can't put down. In his first at bat, Matthew Bracken has hit one out of the park.
Let's all congratulate Freeper Travis McGee on a job very well done...and consider getting one of his books. We have another Freeper Author in our midst and I am sure his novel is going to be picked up and taken nationally by someone. It's simply too good a read for it to be any other way, and it sends all the right messages.
TOPICS: Activism/Chapters; Announcements; Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Free Republic; Government; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 2ndamendment; banglist; constitution; efad; enemies; foreignanddomestic; freeperauthors; liberty; mattbracken; rkba
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To: King Prout
Not yet, I'll click over.
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posted on
07/18/2003 12:46:20 AM PDT
by
Travis McGee
(----- www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com -----)
To: Jeff Head; Travis McGee
Who would have expected it? Our second FR novelist.
Nice work, guys. Best of luck.
To: George W. Bush
Thanks GWB!
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posted on
07/18/2003 7:25:54 AM PDT
by
Travis McGee
(----- www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com -----)
To: Jeff Head
Your posts about self publishing vs going through a publisher leads me to want further information from you if it is possible. I have been working on a couple books myself and wondered how to go about finding a publisher. Assuming a low chance of success by approaching a firm off the street so to speak I thought perhaps an agent might be a better route but then there is the daunting task of finding the proper agent. Do you think genre has anything to do with difficulty? Is say a crime mystery easier than an apocalyptic citizens against tyranny theme to get publisher's interests? Any thoughts, observations or comments are appreciated.
On the outside chance that you were curious my work is of two completely different kinds. First there is a series of short stories using Murphy's Law type of daily experiences to illustrate the on going but comical battle of fate against the individual. The main characters are qwerky but sympathetic. Like Checkov's short stories these run anywhere from a few pages up to 20 or 50 pages (single spaced type written on MS Word). One, the longest is about a detective. The other work is a diet and exercise advise type of book. This latter work I could see someone being interested in the short stories I wonder about as I am not sure about a market for shorts in today's world.
P.S. Please do not use my extemporaneous postings on FR to construe writing capabilities or style.
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posted on
07/18/2003 10:59:12 AM PDT
by
u-89
To: u-89
First thing to do is buy Dan Poynter's "The Self-Pubisher's Manual."
Whether you decide to self-publish or go the conventional begging down 5th avenue route ("please please pretty please look at my manuscript!") the book is invaluable.
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posted on
07/18/2003 11:03:18 AM PDT
by
Travis McGee
(----- www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com -----)
To: Travis McGee
Thanks. I'll check it out.
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posted on
07/18/2003 11:13:44 AM PDT
by
u-89
To: Travis McGee
Quick question - what does one page of MS Word (say a normal 8 1/2 x 11 typed page) equal in numbers of pages in print - like say in your book?
267
posted on
07/18/2003 11:20:17 AM PDT
by
u-89
To: Travis McGee
Bump!
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posted on
07/18/2003 4:36:56 PM PDT
by
PatrioticAmerican
(Helping Mexicans invade America is TREASON!)
To: u-89; Jeff Head
It depends on the font size you use on your final Acrobat PDF format, and the number of lines you decide to put on each printed page, (how squished together they are.) I recall there are 46 lines per Word page, and 36-40 is typical on your printed pages. Words per line is also a factor. I'd say offhand a Word page = about 1.3 to 1.4 PDF printed format pages.
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posted on
07/18/2003 4:50:14 PM PDT
by
Travis McGee
(----- www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com -----)
To: Travis McGee
Came to the thread late - again - a belated congratulations and yet another of my favorite FReepers ends up costing me money...BTT...
To: Billthedrill
Thanks BTD!
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posted on
07/18/2003 5:44:07 PM PDT
by
Travis McGee
(----- www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com -----)
To: u-89
I'll send you more detail in a private Fremail...basically, unless you have a recognized agent, or unless you have connections with someone in the industry who has some major influence (and I have neither), publishers will either take your manuscript and put it in a stack of others like yours and may get to it in a year or more...or they will not accept the manuscript without the aforementioned at all.
That's why I decided to self-publish.
To: u-89
It will vary based on a number of issues like Travis said...point size, kerning, gutters, line spacing, margins, font face, sheet size (8.5X5.5, 6X), etc)...all of which are modifiable until you get the look you want.
To: Travis McGee
Congratulations! You're a good writer. I hope you sell a couple of million. Maybe even get interviewed on the
Today Show with perky Katie Colic.
Ok, forget the last part. I don't know what I was thinking.
5.56mm
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posted on
07/19/2003 7:53:35 PM PDT
by
M Kehoe
To: Jeff Head
Big congrats to Travis! Good luck!
MM
To: M Kehoe
Despite its liberal leanings...or maybe in spite of them, I believe Travis would jump at the chance to be on Today with Katie, because he would do so well in getting the message out to so many people.
I know I would jump at that chance...but as you say, at leaset for me, it is most probably not going to happen. Travis though, that may be another matter.
Best Fregards bro.
To: MississippiMan
Thanks for the BIG congrats. Travis deserves every bit of it and more. From early progress as described on this thread...it looks like he is off to the races too!
To: Travis McGee
Looking forward to it, hope it's the first of many.
Is 'Break a leg' appropriate???
To: Cap'n Crunch
BTTT
To: M Kehoe
I'll be content (for a while) just to sell the book to 1 or 2% of all gun owners.
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posted on
07/21/2003 12:09:19 AM PDT
by
Travis McGee
(----- www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com -----)
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