Wednesday 21 September 2016

Roswell Rising- First Reviews

I've had some reviews on Amazon for Roswell Rising, three of them. The book has had two five-star ratings and one one-star rating. I think I know who posted the one-star rating. He has not read the book and has no intention of doing so; he is just somebody I used to know on the HPANWO Forum who took a dislike to me and so now follows everything I do posting as much negative commentary about me as he can. For instance, he thumbs down every YouTube video I upload as soon as it's processed. Here is the text of the three reviews:

I thought this would be an interesting tome as I have seen many UFOs where I live, Hayes in west London. They continuously swoop down like birds every 30 seconds. Scary stuff but where is the government putting them all as I don't think we have an Area 51. Very disappointed to see this wasn't covered in this book. - Jack Moore

Amazing read and very interesting concept set around the Roswell crash , well done Ben , looking forward to your next one. - Miss Annette le-Mer

Great book by Ben, I really enjoyed it. - Sarah

Thanks very much for taking the time to write those reviews. The book will soon be reviewed in UFO Truth Magazine and I've sent review copies to several other journals in the UFO field. For anybody else who has not read the book yet, I hope this will encourage you to purchase a copy. It can be order from all good bookshops and also online. See here for details: http://hpanwo-bb.blogspot.co.uk/2016/08/roswell-rising-is-here.html.

Friday 16 September 2016

Small Print

Thanks to everybody who has purchased a copy of my new book Roswell Rising- a Novel of Disclosure. See here for background: http://hpanwo-bb.blogspot.co.uk/2016/08/roswell-rising-is-here.html. I sold every copy on my stall at the UFO Truth Magazine conference. I hope those of you who have not done so yet will order a copy soon; you will not regret it. As you can see from the Amazon page, it's had two ratings; one five-star and the other one-star. I think I know who posted the one-star rating. He has not read the book and has no intention of doing so; he is just somebody I used to know on the HPANWO Forum who took a dislike to me and so now follows everything I do posting as much negative commentary about me as he can. For instance, he thumbs down every YouTube video I upload as soon as it's processed! Roswell Rising has only been on sale a month so probably nobody reading it will have finished it yet. I have had some feedback about the book's design though. When I was selecting the design parameters at the originators, they gave me text size options. I chose a ten point font size on an eleven point bed. The "bed" is the space between the lines. This was on a trim size of 7.48 x 4.72 inches with forty-six lines per page. So the print is the minimum size available. Anything less and it would be illegible. Several people have complained to me about the small size of the text. The reason I have done this is to keep the cover price as low as possible. It's going for nine pounds (I'm not doing the £8.99 thing any more. It's dishonest and manipulative I think). If I make the print bigger I'll have to make the book bigger and this will mean it will be a pound or two more expensive. I might do that if a lot of readers have trouble with the small print. Because it's a print-on-demand book I can alter the content at any time. However, if the majority of my readers are happy with the book the way it is I'll keep the print the same size; and therefore Roswell Rising will remain a nice cheap read. For those of you having trouble, you could simply use a magnifying glass. You can pick up small plastic ones at stationary shops for only a couple of pounds.