<div dir="ltr">Jack,<div><br></div><div>As many authors and bands have found over the years, cracking the American market is not easy! I don't subscribe to any of the print newsletters except the one for my local Jazz Society, and I don't recall seeing anything about your book in that monthly publication. I do read everything posted on DJML and on the somewhat related Facebook pages - the last time you posted anything here about your book was apparently in 2015.</div><div><br></div><div>Book publicity is a very tricky thing - my mother published 4 books (including one about a young Big Band trumpet player called "The Stardust Kid" ) - she never sold a lot of them, but that is the way the industry goes. It was almost optioned for a movie but there was a similar film being produced starring Goldie Hawn at the time.</div><div><br></div><div>Maybe it was the title? Maybe it was the regionalism? I sure do not know. </div><div><br></div><div>I wish you luck on your book, I am not sure if I will be ordering a copy, but I might.</div><div><br></div><div>David Richoux</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Dec 2, 2016 at 1:13 PM, Jack Mitchell <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:fjmitch@westnet.com.au" target="_blank">fjmitch@westnet.com.au</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div class="m_-7972150577267051149moz-forward-container"><font size="+2">My book BLISTERED
HEELS, on jazz and hot dance music in Australia in the twenties,
has been reviewed by Nick Dellow in the latest (Autumn 2016)
issue of VJM'S JAZZ & BLUES MART.</font>
<p><font size="+2">This can be read for free on the VJM website.</font></p>
<p><font size="+2">Although I have sold copies to jazz fans in
Holland, Germany, France and Switzerland not one copy has been
sold to an American. We know that most Americans are unaware
or not interested in jazz played outside their own country but
I did think there would be at least one interested in the
spread of their music around the world. The book documents the
Australian visits of more than one hundred American musicians
who played, some for lengthy periods, in Australia in the
twenties.<br>
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<p><font size="+2">Best wishes</font></p><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">
<p><font size="+2">Jack Mitchell</font><br>
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