Tuesday, June 19, 2012

Good Hater

Barring some unforeseen misfortune, Good Hater will be on Kindle about this time next week. I got a final "fact check" back from one of the other two experts* on George Hoyt and he found two unforced errors. Lysander Spooner, it appears, studied law in a Worcester office, not a Boston one. And his abortive relationship with Mary Booth took place in the late 1850s, not late 1840s as I had claimed.

Now that those bugs are fixed and a few pics have found their way in, this beastie is all but ready to go. I'm working with a gal to improve my cover art, and once that's done, it'll be online.  I will have a few promotions where you Kindlers will be able to download it for free**. Next up, a new edition of Samuel Penhallow's Indian Wars, updated for modern readers.

Then maybe I'll add Col. Hoyt to Wikipedia, since he'll be all famous and stuff.

UPDATE: It's online now. Just click the cover on the left side of the page.

* Archie is a Boston lawyer who passed the bar in 1954 and has studied Good Hater's early life for many years. The other expert, whose specialty is the Red Legs, offered no comment. So I'll take that as a win.
** Or if you want a .PDF copy of the original thesis, you can drop me a note at billhoyt at inbox dot com and I'll get you one. It's pretty much the same piece, sans pics.

4 comments:

Doomfinger said...

Excellent

Huckleberry said...

Nothing perks my ears up quite like a Lysander Spooner name check...

bw said...

We'll be doing the Kindle thing on this end.

El Borak said...

It's live as of 2pm. Just click on the "cover" and you should get linked directly to Amazon.