A Coventry Kid's Tale

My order was placed 3 June Delivery 9-21 June Still awaiting dispatch Not impressed !

Sorry about that MR. I will try to explain. P.O.D. means PRINT-ON-DEMAND so only one book is printed when ordered. The pages are then pressed, about a week, then bound and pressed again. It usually takes between 3-4 weeks. I admit it does help to know this but it is a very small publishing house. The large ones would charge at least (very conservative) £10,000 to put a book into print (which I cannot afford). So patience please, just hope you enjoy it.

Thanks John for the info - much appreciated Going on a cruise in August so it would make a good travelling companion!

Enjoy your cruise, at least anyone else reading this will now know roughly how long to wait and why. I know someone else has ordered 2 copies, the poor bloke doing the printing wont know whats hit him just lately, lol

Just been advised by Amazon that my order has now been cancelled

Sorry about that MR. I did not know you had ordered through Amazon. Just a warning, Amazon for some reason does that to any order for any P.O.D. book. If you use the link under my post you should still receive a copy for August, cancelling out any middle man. I think the postage is 60p. Hope this helps. Just checked the link and it does work, click on the title and it will take you to the "buy this book" page. A.T.B.

Thanks John - order completed

I can definitely confirm that using the link under each of scrutiny's posts works extremely well. The P.O.D. company did have a problem recently with their book binding machine, which is why there was a delay on some orders. However, I had a very pleasant response from them by email explaining about it - and then a followup email to let me know that they were up and running again, so I was impressed with how courteous they were.... and my second copy of the book arrived within two days of that ! As John has explained, all proceeds go to the charity "Friends of St Cross", but more than that..... buy it because it will make you smile..... a lot !

Order placed 11:00am Sat 7th July. Order received mid-day today, Friday 13th July! I make that about a 4 working day turn-round. I couldn't have done it quicker if I'd used my own printer!

I am impressed, he has certainly speeded things up since I first contacted him (the publisher) to see about getting my book in print. Just hope you enjoy it Tony and MR. And a thank you to Rob for his kind words and letting me plug the book on his web-site

It's always a pleasure John

Rob. Because the publisher does not post overseas, I was asked to order two copies for someone who lives in Australia and post them on to them. Ordered on the 7th July, arrived by post 13th July. Now that is fast service. "Your Pod" has really got their act together and if anybody wants a book publishing I recommend them. P.S. Hey Tony, just realised, same date as you.

The suspense is terrible!!! At least four people on here read it. It must be that bad they will not comment on it. LOL, Hope you enjoyed your cruise MR, at least you did not throw yourself overboard, if it arrived in time that is?