DRAGON'S FURY - BREATH OF FIRE
A Novel of the coming orld War
Posted on 06/06/2002 4:46:02 PM PDT by Jeff Head
Dragon's Fury - Breath of Fire by FReeper Jeff Head has been written up in the June 17, 2002 edition of Shotgun News.
The article is on Page 73 of the Magazine and is by the owner of Fred's M-14 Stocks. He entitles it, "Breath of Fire" a Scary Book.
Here is the body of the article.
I just read a white hot new book on the start of World War III, called "Dragon's Fury - Breath of Fire" by Jeff Head.The first of five volumes, it is well worth the read because it shows how easy it would be in the world today for us to go - in a few months - from superpower to embattled ...under a threat even more massive than World War II.
Naturally, our Chinese friends are at the bottom of it, just like they will be in real life. (Before the outbreak of World War II with Japan, farsighted authors were portraying a war with Japan in prophetic fiction, one forecasting the Japanese advance on the Philipines - and the attack on Pearl Harbor! I sure hope Jeff doesn't have the same foresight, for, if he does, we are in for some rough sledding.) ...
The huge Chinese trade surplus today is financing a Chinese military build-up. The Japs were smart, tough enemies, and the Chinese are going to be tough, hard-to-beat enemies also. Truly, "those who do not remember history are condemmed to repeat it." ...
Available from Barnes and Nobles, Amazon.com or www.dragonsfury-breathoffire.com.
Get a copy. It'll scare you!
I've been reading about shoestring book marketing, and scratching and clawing for reviews is considered critical. Each review goes along with the letters and free books asking for more reviews, sort of a positive feedback loop bootstrap operation. This is considered an absolutely invaluable use of your free giveaway books, it's got to be done.
Quinn played and promoted the heck out of "The Ballad" from the beginning and real big for St. Patrick's Day as well. Also, this past Wednesday he had Vetnet on his show for a nice long interview and another playing of "The Ballad." Now The War Room has ordering info for "The Ballad of Mike Moran" CD and poster right on the front page. They are also working with Vetnet to secure corporate sponsorship of the upcoming "Ballad" video.
Here's a link to The War Room Show Archives page. Vetnet's interview is in the Wed. June 5th show, at the 86 minute mark. I think Quinn would be worth sending a copy of your book to. I'm sure he'll like it and say nice things about it. Vetnet and doug from upland can tell you it would be worth your while.
FReepmail me and I'll get you his mailing address if you are interested.
I have a lot of respect for the "War Room". You'll have FRemail.
Jeff
In the mean time ... I'm still writing.
Glad to see that it is getting attention in shotgun news. That should boost sales for you.
Please consider writing that review on FR too, and maybe on the site at Barnes and Nobles. Amazon can take a week or longer to post the reviews.
FRegards.
Hope you really enjoy it. Please let me know what you think when you are done reading it and please consider a short review on Amazon.
Vol II should be available in a few weeks.
FRegards and hope all is well with you and yours up north there.
I'm still hoping a big publisher picks it up sometime and puts ten or twelve of them in every Walden's and B. Dalton in the country. Either way ... I'm going to keep on writing.
... and really, please consider writing that review on FR, and maybe on Barnes and Nobles.
Either way, thank you for your encouragement and support and may He bless you and yours as well.
Eagles Up!
FRegards and BTTT.
IOW, a NY publishing contract with its tiny advance and 10% royalties is a crap shoot where 90% lose totally. In self publishing, you give yourself time to build a head of steam one review at a time.
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