Out Of Print

It’s the end of the road for Praise From a Future Generation.

A few days ago, as this is written, I received an unexpected letter from its publisher, Wings Press, informing me of their decision to shitcan the book once and for all. (Some choice excerpts from this letter are below.)

The letter surprised me. Aside from the e-book edition, I thought it already was out of print!

The letter included a royalty check covering the last three years. This too surprised me, although its miniscule amount did not. I didn’t think they owed me a farthing.

How miniscule was the check? Let’s just say we’re not using it to put a swimming pool in the back yard, and leave it at that. But I didn’t write the book expecting to make money. I hope that’s been obvious all along.

In any case, hard copies of the book now belong to the ages. Or something like that.

If you are reading this, you are among the tiniest of tiny minorities who are aware this book even exists (assuming you didn’t arrive here by chance). It is the story of the JFK assassination through the eyes of the “first generation”  Warren Report critics, a small group of private citizens who immediately saw the lone nut assassin story for the transparent nonsense it was, and always has been.

Wings Press still has a handful of copies, pending my nonaction that dooms them to the landfill. I have an option to buy some or all at less than market value. Pass. Let them return to the earth, from whence they came!

The e-book remains, although if it’s unchanged from the version I saw when we prepared it a few years after the hard copy, it's poorly done – more like a PDF of the book, rather than liquid text that resizes itself to the dimensions of an e-reader.

In any case, I must look at this as the final chapter (no pun intended) in the saga of writing this damned thing. It’s a little sad, of course. The finished product represents a lot of work. Research began around 2000 or so, and it was finally published in 2007 – in itself, a minor miracle. But it’s already been in the rear view mirror for a long time.

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