Was anyone else notified that there are further delays with Winter's New Orleans Gold book?

Longacre

I put my order in through Amazon well over a month ago. I heard that the book would be issued in July. Unfortunately, I got an email from Amazon indicating that there are additional delays, and the shipping date has now been pushed back until sometime in August. In the time that I ordered this book until today, QDB has written a total of 14 books, created a feeding frenzy for American Bank Note Company vignettes, and lectured those crooks in Congress a thing or two about numismatics. So what is taking the Winter book so long to get published? I know it is not the author's fault, but the New Orleans gold collectors (all three of us) are going nuclear waiting for this new book.

TheRaven

Bowers has only written 14 books in that time? What is he on vacation or something.....

It is because New Orleans gold is an ever changing topic that they are having trouble keeping up with.....

I will probably be ordering this book when it does come out.....

RYK

I know it is not the author's fault, but the New Orleans gold collectors (all three of us) are going nuclear waiting for this new book.

My guess is that the delay is at the publisher, Zyrus Press, since I know for a fact that the book has been complete for some time. Actually, I view this a lot like when I receive Coin World or even a coin that I have purchased. I am not sure when it will come, but I know that it will arrive at some point, and I will be happy when it does.

I also know for a fact that there are more than three of us...there are at least four.

Longacre

I got another email from Amazon indicating that the rest of my order is shipping, but not the Winter book. It seems like it is still not available.

The only upside is that it gives me more time to buy up all of the available N.O. gold, before the feeding frenzy resulting from the book's publication, begins.

Longacre

I still have not received my book. To make matters worse, I received the Southern Gold Society Newsletter today, and there is a highly detailed article/analysis of the new book. I am almost unable to read the article, being whipped up into a frothy frenzy merely after reading the title of the article. Any new news on this book?

PS. I have now extended my estimated population of New Orleans gold collectors to six.

Reece

I just talked to Zyrus press, there has been a problem in customs, the book was printed in China, and they said they hope to have the book by this Tuesday or Wednesday!! We will see.

RYK

Boy, if we had the book for our SGS regional meeting this past weekend, our meeting would have lasted much longer! I'd probably still be having breakfast with Reece.

mgoodm3

SGS is an unfortunate acronym for your society.

RYK

SGS is an unfortunate acronym for your society.

Not at all. The profits we book running the TPG (with the same name) allow us to buy more expensive gold coins.

MikeInFL

Just got an e-mail from DWN. Included in it was the following:

I will be attending the ANA Convention from Tuesday August 15th through Saturday August 19th at Tables 523 and 525. ... I will also have a limited number of signed copies of my new book “Gold Coins of the New Orleans Mint, 1839-1909” available for sale for $35.


So there seem to be at least a few copies around.

Have fun....Mike

DaveG

Longacre,

I hope that, by now, you've recovered sufficiently from your "frothy frenzy" to read that totally excellent article in the SGS eNewsletter!