Submitted by:
Jim Gindlesperger
For more information: http://www.sff.net/people/JGindles/

FIRE ON THE WATER FINALLY RELEASED!!!!

Many of you, while patiently waiting, have been asking when my latest book, Fire on the Water, is going to be released. As you may know, publication has been held up by poor economic conditions in the publishing industry. I am pleased to announce that the book is finally ready for release! Even more exciting is the news that it has already been selected by the Lincoln and Soldiers Institute at Gettysburg College for consideration for the prestigious Lincoln Prize. The Lincoln Prize is awarded annually to the year's best work on Abraham Lincoln or the Civil War.

To commemorate the publication of Fire on the Water I have received permission to offer the book at a “pre-publication” 15% discount. The discount will also extend to either of my other two books as well (Escape From Libby Prison and Seed Corn of the Confederacy) if they are purchased at the same time as Fire on the Water. If all three books are purchased together, each one is 20% off the regular price. This offer is being made to CWRT’s, Sons of Union Veterans, Sons of Confederate Veterans, preservation groups, and other interested groups and individuals. If you represent an organization, please let your members know of this offer.

This puts the pre-publication prices (U.S. Dollars only, please) at: Fire on the Water alone, or multiple copies (regular price will be $27.95) $23.75 each; Fire on the Water plus one other book (other books are regularly $24.95) $44.95; Fire on the Water plus two other books (20% off all three books) $62.25.

Fire on the Water follows the voyages of the CSS Alabama, the most famous and most successful raider in the Confederate navy, and the USS Kearsarge, one of many federal ships sent to track the Alabama down and sink her. The two foes met off the coast of Cherbourg, France where the Kearsarge defeated the Alabama in an epic battle. The book details the hazards of shipboard life, including storms, fires, mutinies, and sharks in an amazing story of the fight for survival.

Escape From Libby Prison tells the exciting story of the famous tunnel escape out of the Confederacy’s infamous Libby Prison in 1864, the largest mass POW escape in American military history. Escape From Libby Prison won the George Washington Honor Medal for Excellence, was optioned by Warner Brothers to be made into a feature movie, and was featured in a Discovery Channel documentary.

Seed Corn of the Confederacy documents the famous participation of the cadets from Virginia Military Institute at the Battle of New Market. Some of the cadets were as young as 15. Referring to Seed Corn of the Confederacy, an official at VMI says that the story “has never been better told.”

To order any of these books, please forward payment to (Pennsylvania residents please add 6% sales tax; I will pay all shipping charges):

Jim Gindlesperger
P.O. Box 47
Tire Hill, PA, USA 15959

I will be happy to sign any of these books, and, since I have heard from some of you that you would like to use these books as Christmas presents I would be happy to include a personalized message. Just let me know who you would like me to make the message out to, and if you have something specific you’d like me to say in the message, include that as well.

Space limitations prohibit more detail on these books, but more information is available at http://www.sff.net/people/JGindles/. Thanks again to all of you for the patience you showed as you waited for Fire on the Water to come out. I appreciate all the messages of support so many of you sent during the long wait, and I hope this discount makes up for the delay in some small way.