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Saturday 29 December 2018

Prose Books Are MONTHS of Hard Work!


The following page and word count for the prose books ought to prove how much work went into each:


Some Things Strange & Sinister   330pp   92,979 words

Some More Things Strange & Sinister  322pp  96,931 words

Pursuing The Strange & Weird       240pp  66, 911 words

The Bizarre Legend & Crimes of Spring Heeled Jack   54pp  19,138 words

Red Paper:Canids   202pp  67,261 words

The Girt Dog of Ennerdale  42pp    13,527 words

Strange & Mysterious Beasts   324 pp  70,539 words

UFO Contacts:Looking At The Evidence 530pp  171,972 words

Unidentified –Identified  220pp  73,671 words

Contact! Encounters with Extra Terrestrial Entities?  370pp  140,865 words

The Hooper Interviews  365pp   78,672 words



Total Word Count: 824,555

Of course that does not include the hundreds of images -some very rare of thought to have been lost 100-120 years ago, illustrations and countless reference and everything is factual -no lies or twisting facts to sell the book like most authors dealing with "World Mysteries"

Thursday 27 December 2018

Ah, Golden Age (British) Reprints...

Someone said that it was a shame that there would be no more British Golden Age reprints book published.

Well, I have the material but the thing is that I do not have the time it takes to work on cleaning up and making all of the material available.

A great deal is included in Black Tower Super Heroes 1-8 which are all 80 pagers and took months to put together -unless you have had to do this work you will not know how long it takes or how complicated it can be.  BTSH run was finished in early 2018 but has not been published.  The reason is simple really and I have gone into this before.

My financial situation in publishing has never been worse. Sales last year amounted to 7 books and if they were purchased in the US once the print on demand have taken their money I get hit with US Taxes.  The latest book has  price tag of £15 and from that I will get £4.68 and I have to eat and pay bills.

The first of the British Golden Age Collection was published in 2009 and like all the volumes that followed it has sold zero copies.  I decided to put all the volumes together at a price that would be a saving on buying all the separate volumes.  Four copies have sold over the last few years.

I often ask where all those people are who wrote "Oh, I'll buy thyat when it's published!" have gone? Where are all of the old comics fans who whined on relentlessly about not being able to find or read these lost "gems"?

It was worked out -by someone else as I prefer not to think about it- that for the material published in the original volumes and Ultimate Collection I had spent well in "excess of £2000" ($2000+) but the person kindly added "I don't think that it would do your health good to hear the exact figures".  Now I'm anxious.

So, yes, if you wanted to buy those comics then, having checked every-so-often, that £2000+ can be doubled.  You see why the books are bargains now?

These are not mass print runs -only copies ordered are printed off so in that way they are collectible but who cares?

BTSH has all different material to the original volumes and I do not offer pdf downloads as I have explained in the past: https://hoopercomicart.blogspot.com/2018/03/on-did-free-content-kill-paying.html

Be aware of a "legal" con also going on.

Earlier this year I got a complaint from someone that a book they had ordered had not been delivered. I checked nut no book had been ordered.  It turns out that Johnny Numbnuts had ordered from an online book seller.  He had done so as the book he ordered was 'post free'.  He got his book two weeks later and he really liked it.

Johnny Numbnuts did not get a "thank you" from me as he might normally do.  You see, he expected me to find out what was happening with his book and why the delay.  I pointed out that he had not purchased the book from my online store so I had nothing to do with it and really did not care. If he had purchased from my online store I could actually chase up the POD company and ask what was going on.

Johnny did not really care about the publisher -me- he was like a lot of people who thought he was getting something for nothing -in this case 'post free' -there is no such thing. If you are dumb you will believe there is.  See, Johnny paid £28 for a book that on my store would set him back £15.00 -dependent on the option of postage -regular, tracked or signed for- he would have paid up to £20. He was paying for regular postage plus a chunk on top for the seller.

The seller, depending if they are Amazon or another book service, will pay me, for a £20 somewhere in the region of £1.50 and they can sell the book for whatever price they want.  The other thing is that the book will still take up to 8 days to print and get to them (so they add extra to cover that) and they then have to post it to their buyer. So it has to go from printers to seller and then on to customer and that adds more chance of it going missing and good luck getting your money back.

If you order it direct from the online store you have three choices of postage AND I have never had a damaged package yet. THAT is what it will cost you with a 5-8 days delivery time. take a look at this for the Complete Golden Age Collection:

Retail Print  Price (excl. taxes) £25.00   MY Revenue -£2.64

Yes, I get hit with taxes!!  But at the moment the Complete Golden Age Collection is temporarily reduced by 20% to £20.00

On Amazon UK the price is £25.00 and they state Usually dispatched within 1 to 3 months.
Uh...1 to 3 months???

Oh and the Ebay sellers who offer the book as "rare" or "vintage" not to mention "long out of print" and want you to pay £29-40.00 a copy PLUS p&p....it is a con.

When you take all of this into account you will realise why I do not want to add another 8 books to the online store.  Nothing sells.

As for trying to get a freebee under the pretense of "reviewing" -an obscene response often offends!

So, yes, plenty of old and new material just no one buying.

I'm not going to have a good 2019 so I wont falsely with you a Happy New Year if you don't mind.

Wednesday 26 December 2018

Limited Time Book Launch Price!!



Special Limited Offer!

£15.00


The Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI) says that we may have to wait many thousands of years before any signals sent gets a response if they are detected.

The real SETI may already have established the there is alien life –and it has been visiting Earth for at least 70 years.

Once the mass of reports of 
Close Encounters of the Third Kind and entity encounters are sifted there remains a strong core of cases that defy logical explanation and suggest that these encounters have resulted in physiological effects and post traumatic stress.

Terry Hooper-Scharf of the CE3K/AE Project has led research into these reports for over 40 years and in this work takes a look at rare or obscure reports as well as cataloguing encounters from Germany and Portugal and focuses in on correlations in the reports and how the Dandenong (Kelly Cahill) encounter could be the best case ever reported.

Have the serious investigators and researchers looking into UFOs been unearthing better evidence of extra terrestrial life and contact with humans than established SETI ?



Product Details
Copyright Terry Hooper-Scharf (Standard Copyright Licence)
Edition First
Publisher
Terry Hooper-Scharf/Black Tower Comics & Books
Published 26 December 2018
Language English
Pages 370
Binding  Perfect-bound Paperback
Interior Ink Black & white
Weight 1.03 kg
Dimensions (centimetres)  20.98 wide x 29.69 tall (A4)

Sunday 11 November 2018

Updating

as no one appears to be buying comics, graphic novels or books all the work going into updating this blog will be stopped.

People decide to start buying stuff I will begin updating again but.....

Tuesday 30 October 2018

AOP JOURNAL 1

Price currently reduced by 25%!!!

Paperback,
52 Pages
Price: £6.00 (excl. VAT)Prints in 3-5 business days
Technical and scientific based journal looking at what has become known as "UFOs" -including natural phenomena some not yet scientifically understood. This is NOT a sensationalist publication but will contain fully referenced articles and reports to help promote further serious study.

Sunday 16 September 2018

Unidentified - Identified: Limited Special Offer til 15th October



Terry Hooper-Scharf
220 pages
A4
perfect bound
paperback
Fully illustrated with photographs and illustrations
 List Price: £20.00
Price: £18.00 (excl. VAT)You Save: £2.00 ( 10% )

Prints in 3-5 business days

The follow up to the comprehensive book "UFO Contact?"
The Author spent 1974 to 2018 specializing in the investigation and research of Close Encounters of the Third Kind (CE3K) and alien entity cases; the former involving an Unidentified Flying Object and the latter, apparently, involving none.
Previously unreported cases as well as 'lost' cases are looked at as well as the possibility that some percients suffer from Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome after their encounters A must read for those with a serious interest in UFOs
Some of the contents:

 The Nottinghamshire UFO Crash of 1987…or 1988                                     

 The Llandrillo ‘Saucer’ and Berwyn Mountains ‘UFO’ Crash Retrieval   

 Strange Pennsylvania Entity Encounter                                                         

 UFO Abductees and Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome                               

 The UFO That Landed On A US Highway                                                     

 My Encounters With The Men In Black                                                         

 A Previously Un-noted Alien Entity Type                                               
       
 Early 20th Century UK Close Encounters of the Third Kind                       

 Close Encounter with a Boggart                                                                      

 Some Odd and Unusual Cases                                                                         

 Rosa Lotti and the Happy Entities                                                                  

 The Strange Case of the Woollaton Gnomes and the Mince-pie Martians 

 What Happened on the Isle of Wight and at Felixstowe?                             

 The ‘Lost’ Belgian UFO Landing Case                                                        
  
 Strange Aliens from Outer Space?                                                              
   
 Encounter with Black Aliens and Landed UFO                                 
           
 Preliminary UK CE3K/Alien Entity Catalogue      

Friday 14 September 2018

Limited Time Book Discount Offer


A 15% discount has been set on prose books on the online store and will remain active until 15th October.

the Hooper interviews is excluded as it is currently set at a very low price.

http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/hoopercomicsuk






Monday 10 September 2018

The Next Prose Book and the last


It is very likely that my next prose bool: Unidentified - Identified will be my last.  I have twelve (?) books and publications under my belt and that covers a great deal.

The new book will be available in October.  writing it has not been easy.  Working 1100 hrs to 2300 hrs each day, writing, editing is not good when you have eye problems.  It is not good when it results in extreme hand and arm pain.

My first love is field work, wildlife or otherwise and I intend to carry on with that but if typing this hurts -so 200-500 pp books are gone!

So there's the announcement!

The other announcement is that the last lot of people I spoke to about a "Mysteries" TV series pulled out of the project because the owner of the company "changed interests". pfah!

As of 21:40 hrs today the book is at page 200 and there are some images to add. I will summarise what is going in the book closer to release date -October.- but there are some reports not previously published and some where the record -in other words the wholly inaccurate accounts repeated for the last 50 years or so- is set straight.

This is all to come but for now.....eye rest!

Saturday 8 September 2018

Please Remember

The Anomalous Observational Phenomena blog does have a Face Book page.  Please visit and any questions -ask!

https://www.facebook.com/groups/467983846696626/

Thursday 6 September 2018

Final Editing and Preliminary Cover

Just finishing off the final editing and waiting to see whether some promised material turns up -otherwise: done!

Tuesday 4 September 2018

Some Words

My blogs are not being updated as much as I would like and longer posts are not currently being uploaded.

The reason is simple: my old PC is now shutting down or freezing whenever it feels like it 3-4 times a day.  I certainly cannot afford a new one.  My cooker and other items have broken down and they need replacing first.

Put it this way: would you post constantly to a blog on which absolutely no one comments or says "thanks" in any way for the hours of work you put in?  And doing that for free so that they constantly gain but you lose out?

I doubt it.

I have just spent four months posting on and promoting my books and comics across the internet -after updating books.  I was working on this 11:00 hrs til 23:00 and even 01:00 hrs. Daily. And the response was....

ZERO.

No comments.  No questions and no sales. Comic albums, graphic novels and prose books.  THOUSANDS of you see these posts but you have no interest in buying so what are you here for?

I'm working on my new book which is mainly for my own gratification and reference (obviously since no one else is interested in them).  If I can I'll post video links or the odd item of interestr but you don't care and I've given up (rather like my computer).

Thursday 30 August 2018

New Book Imprints To Be Launched!


After re-organising the online store it was decided that Black Tower Comics & Graphic Novels would be treated as a separate imprint from the company.

The re-organisation has led to the following imprints being created and which will launch on 1st September, 2018:

Nature Series -Wildlife related books

World Mysteries -encompassing everything from the paranormal, cryptozoology, ufology and more.

Technical Study Books -the first is UFO Contact? and would be considered far more in depth (at 500+pp) on subject matter.

All of the books -Some Things Strange & Sinister   Some MORE Things Strange & Sinister   Pursuing The Strange and Weird   The Truth About Spring Heeled Jack and Mysterious Beasts & Creatures - have had re-writes to some degree and extra photographs and other images added and all carry the "World Mysteries" logo.

More information on 1st September.

Tuesday 28 August 2018

Graveyard




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What's My Name? A Purple Hood Adventure!




Destroy The World!

This was requested, however, I am not going to publish cleaned up hi~res scans!  Those are in the book itself and there is nothing like reading these stories in A4 format!

















The Purple Hood Collection

The Purple Hood Collection
A4
Black & white
Perfect bound
A4
Paperback, 
108 Pages
£15.00 (excl. VAT)
Prints in 3-5 business days

It was the Swinging Sixties! Britain was hip as hip could be -The Beatles ruled Pop! And everyone was looking toward a bright future…if there wasn’t a nuclear war! Middle Eastern threats,Eastern European fascists,flying saucer flying megalomaniacs and super mole machines and others threatened our little island. But we had the ultimate answer to these:The Purple Hood -International crime-smasher! Michael Jay’s Purple Hood now collected into over a hundred pages of action and text back-up. This is THE ultimate collection!

THE PURPLE HOOD LAND OF HOPE AND GLORY

THE PURPLE HOOD LAND OF HOPE AND GLORY
                                  
Paperback,
A4
74 Pages 
Price: £8.00 (excl. VAT)
There has always been a Purple Hood.

“The Kings Man” and then the international agent used by HM Government to deal with external and internal threats. Mad men with nuclear bombs.

Organised drug cartels. Power hungry dictators.
The Britton family have always been Purple Hoods.

The Purple Hood is precise and clinical in his work.

But above all else those wearing the Hood have had guidance from their consciences. So when the military stand idly by, unable to act when civilians are massacred –when politicians only draw up policy and blow warm air…..
...does the Purple Hood –does John Britton– sit back on his hands idly awaiting a change in policy?
Or does John Britton pull on the Hood and say:

“Enough! The line is drawn and crossed!” Time for the bad men to run.
Time to hide.
Or time to die!

Ben Dilworth writes and draws this mini epic

Rule Britannia...Land Of Hope....Glory

Tales of Terror



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