Hawks, Eagles, and Owls

Dr. Dwight Smith (co-author of the recent Does Champ Exist?) is a professional biologist with a special interest in birds of prey, so we're now working on putting out Hawks, Eagles, and Owls of the Northeast (tentative title). This actually follows up on a book he previously co-authored, Raptors of the Pacific Northwest. This new book will have a very similar style.

I have the text in total now, and am awaiting the contributed images, arriving this week, so could very well have the book available within a month. Biggest question will be, do it in color or black-and-white? Color has its obvious advantage, but is also far more expensive with POD.

Look for a series of specialty single-species bird titles in the future, as well.

The Other Oudemans

Cosimo has put out their reprint of Oudemans' The Great Sea Serpent. They've gone the hardcover route, so it is not directly competing with my paperback version. Amazon, of course, merged the two books together under the same title, the hardcover being primary, which is annoying, but Barnes & Noble lists them separately in search results.

Champ Book Available

Well, this book is a long time coming. I've been working with Gary & Dwight for 2-3 years, trying to get everything together. There are more books coming (particularly one on Pacific marine cryptids), as well as some bird books by Dwight, who is a professional ornithologist.

Amazon still hasn't corrected the author names (for some reason, Amazon always mixes up the first and last names of an author when they import the data from Ingrams, so I have to email them to correct it), but I'll go ahead and start marketing the book now. Info at the book page, or order from Amazon.

Sent to the Printer

Does Champ Exist? is at the printer, and should be available for sale within a week or so.

Champ Cover

Here's a peek at the wrap-around for the upcoming Champ conference book.

Amazon: Search Suggestions Tags

Amazon has converted search suggestions to search suggestion tags; it was really only a matter of time, given the popularity of tags on social networking sites and blogs. I guess I'll have to go through and retag most of my titles, maybe expand them a bit. It looks like the old Amazon book tags don't carry over to search suggestion tags, which is odd.

Another strange point is the new feature, Books on Related Topics (from the Inside this Book section, which is only available on books with the Search Inside feature). For Cryptozoology: Science & Speculation, it points readers to books on tracking and mammalogy, not cryptozoology. Don't know how useful that will be.