Maybe I confused them - can't really remember, but I am finished with conventional publishers anyway. I seem to have sent manuscripts to most of the nautical publishers where most of them were either rejected or ignored. I sometimes wondered why they didn't send me a book of rejection slips to cover my next dozen or so submissions. A few said they were interested, but I would need to re-write them to their specifications, which I did (each one taking several months) only to be told they still didn't want them The last one, I got accepted and they said it would need to be re-written, but by then I was fed up and said "take it, or leave it!" so they left it, but two weeks later, contacted me agin to say they could have their editor re-write it and deduct the cost from royalties, so I agreed. The editing reduced it from A4 size to a much smaller format, and a large amount of text, and loads of images were discarded. It sold out very quickly, but they were not keen on reprinting, and agreed that I could submit it somewhere else if I wished. I put all the missing text and photographs back, and brought the size back to A4. I turned to the much sneered a "vanity publishing" where the author, desperate to get in print, pays for publication. It sold out quickly and I had it reprinted a number of times until it ran its course. (It was a maritime book of my own experiences at sea). I next produced books on model shipbuilding, and they sold out as well and were reprinted several times before they ran their course, but all sold out. I am now too old for that sort of thing, as it became too much to pack them and tramp off to the post office to post them. I now confine myself to digital downloads, of which I have produced just over 60 over the past few years.
