If There Are Serious Publishers Out There...They Are Hiding!

  The truth of the matter is that distributors block you and shops do likewise if you are a self publisher. I know because I have tried since 2009.

Online stores are nothing more than show and I say that after opening one in 2009 and there are currently 169 books covering 17 pages.

These are comics of various genres. Graphic novels of various genres and comic albums (48-100pp) on various genres.

There are the World Mystery Books (4 of them covering UFOs, cryptozoology, ghosts and more).

There is the Red Paper: Canids that lomng time naturalists have called "an incredible wildlife document" and "Explosive!" not to mention the album finally explaining what the Girt Dog of Innerdale (a cryptozoological mystery) was. There was also the look at Spring Heeled Jack and as detailed as you could want.

A quartet of books looking at the Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI), UFOs and specifically encounters with "aliens" -good review from the Centre for UFO Studies and others.

All the text books are fully illustrated have rare and 'lost' photographs and everything is fully referenced.

I asked someone to count up how many views of posts relating to these books there had been up to 2019 on this and all the other blogs, Twitter, Pinterest and so on. 3.24 million. But the books do not sell and they are all printed in the region they are ordered from so there isn't even a concern about international postage -postage is local.

Comic shops will not stock the comics unless they are on "free trial" and kept off the books and the monopoly distributor in the UK does not find out. In other words it is what we used to call a "dead shop".

Regarding books the same applies but most bookstortes still left are "Remnant bookstores" selling off old stock. Those that do buy in new stock belong to chains and therefore will only take what head office says they can. And guess what? Head office only buys from distributors. Another "closed shop".

From the 1980s to the 1990s I submitted the same manuscripts to UK publishers. All rejected BECAUSE the persons reviewing the Ms for publishers were established UFO authors and, of course, that meant they were going to block anyone threatening their money-making monopoly (I have two of the "reader reviews" the publishers sent me so I know who put the boot in -they also used a large chunk of my data as their own later).

So when people ask whether I have tried a paying publisher my response is "Yes but as long as they employ reviewers with vested interests no outsider will have work in print" (just check the UKs UFO books output for the last 20 years to see what I mean).

Considering that we appear to be in a new age of illiteracy and where only fake sensationalist books are published and sold serious and factual writers will not get a look in.

Hey, if there is a serious, established publisher out there I'll send you copies of books. Just get in touch.

I have gone past the stage where decades of work is thrown away for a few pennies. I need to live and pay bills the same as everyone else.

In March all of the World Mystery and UFO books will be deleted from the store.

Books To Be Withdrawn Notice

 I am going to be withdrawing all of the UFO and world mystery books unless I get some sense out of this. I just sold £70.00 worth of books.

I just checked my sales and I know Lulu and the printer takes a cut but what I am seeing makes keeping my books on sale pointless.

I sold two copies of Beyond UFO Contact @£20 each (£40.00) -I make £4.02??

Encounters with Extraterrestrial Entities? I sold one at £20 but get £0.96

Two copies of the AOP Journal @£5.00 I make £1.90.

So from £70.00 worth of sales I get £6.92??

I'm basically giving away the books!

I've been ripped off enough in the past and 2021 is when it stops but I have to "honour" the sales first.

No one.

posted on the CE3K blog

At 0330 hrs I sat looking at the CE3K/AE files as well as files containing more of my 40+ years of research and asked myself, seriously: "Would anyone be the poorer is all of this paper was just burnt?"

I have tried, repeatedly ad nauseum, to get people to seriously look at the UFO data or data of "strange creatures".  You see there are thousands of reports in the CE3K/AE files and I am trying to add to them since many hundreds of reports are simply newspaper clippings and no Ufologist ever investigated them in the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s or 1990s because it was easier to accept them than do real work.

This is why Ufology never was and never will be a science of anything. It has become entertainment turning over and over the same stories and same false conspiracies. What has it done with its "Millions of credible UFO reports"? Probably 95% of which can be dismissed.  Where are all the analysis results?  

Why in just three days of collecting thousands of reports each on a slip of paper (no computers back then) could I categorise two different phenomena as well as a burgeoning file of fake, hoax and misidentified reports that Ufologists KNEW were such back in the 1950s but continue to cite as evidence in 2021?

I sat down and studied CE3K/AE reports and studied psychology, medical conditions and read books by authors in the field that are very pertinent to cryptozoology, UFOlogy as well as the paranormal. Strange, weird and 'unexplainable' reports began to be not so strange nor unexplainable.

Back in 1983, when the several hundred pages final UFO Report was offered to top Ufologists they all rejected the offers. NBot willing to read anything (even fully referenced) that might challenge their positions and the lucrative TV or magazine deals. Ditto the United States where "We cannot accept the report as you are not a member" was the standard get lost.  Unlike Hopkins and Jacobs I was putting the work up for peer review. THAT is how science works.

My books on CE3K/AE cases are there for peer review.

As I get older I sereiously ask what the point of all the work is. Vallee is the "elder statesman of Ufology" yet his books and work have included known false data since day 1. Ted Phillips' Physical Traces catalogue as well as the Webb HUM CAT catalogues contain known hoaxes, misidentifications etc.  Just adding more and more reports to a data base does not make it accurate or worth anything: every report has to be checked and checked again until it can be categorised and added to a data base.

These files of Unidentified Orbital Objects, Astronomers & Astronauts and UFOs, Mysterious Signals from Space and much, much more are sitting here. Once I am kicking up daisies I know all of this will go up in smoke since no one in my family has the slightest interest and it is all "useless clutter".  Let others get hold of it and benefit from my decades of work?  No. 

Face it; no one is interested in commenting here.  No one wants to buy the books or the AOP Journal. If there was genuine interest then I should be doing fine right now instead of posting to myself.

I've asked people to help fund ongoing work and enable me to find a permanent home for the archives. Nothing.

This summer, when the other material stored in a dried place until it can be incinerated are disposed of I will make the decision on the day. No debate I will just take the files out and burn everything.

Who will miss the files? The Reports in them?  Certainly not any of the 10,000 plus blog visitors. No one.