As some viewers over the past many years may recall, I have long
just been about to become a published author with my Reliant three-wheelers 1935-2002 manuscript. It was as good as all done & dusted in 2006 with Trans-Pennine Publishing until first one disaster after another and death sunk the company. Always on the brink, my manuscript time & time again returned to the bottom drawer as the years creaked on. Other subjects & other intrests would move me on from the Reliant world but somewhere, somebody was clearly watching....
You may have noticed I have not been around much these past few months. In February I received, out of the blue, a letter saying that the former Trans Pennine projects had been picked up by Crecy Publishing of Manchester. There in the envelope was something I had never been able to wrest from Trans Pennine: A contract. But there were conditions. The manuscript had to be almost doubled in size within eight weeks, and more photos, many more.... Fortunately though I am not completely divorced from the Reliant world, and a quick call to Elvis Payne, of 3-wheelers.com & R3W saw him joining me as co-authour & so the last two months have seen our pens scratching often into the small hours.
Yesterday the official announcement of the book was made by Crecy Publishing, and today myself & Elvis make our official announcements, me here on the Rum Cars Forum & Elvis on R3W at this self same time. For those who wish further proof, click here;
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Reliant-Motor-Co-1935-2002/dp/1908347023 And here:
http://www.whsmith.co.uk/CatalogAndSearch/ProductDetails.aspx?ProductID=9781908347022
At long last our task is done.
Now, on 30th July 2011 we cast it to the crowd
