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The rocket boys, once ridiculed, caught Coalwood's fancy. Soon mining engineers were helping Homer shape nozzles and valves, while teachers slipped him books on calculus and the principles of ...
- Amazon FBA Scam
- Ku Or Wide For Nonexistent Book Scams
- Cheaper Kindle Scams
- Why Is Amazon Letting This Happen?
- How Can You Tell If You Are Being scammed?
- What Can Authors do?
First, we have a problem that seems to have affected multiple authors, both independent and traditional.
Everyone knows that if you are enrolled in KDP Select to put your books in Kindle Unlimited, Amazon requires exclusivity. Well, turns out scammers are targeting this as well.
Similar to both the above scams, Amazon is seeing counterfeit Kindle editions pop up here and there.
Amazon is known for having frequent scams, and it has spent a lot of time and effort coming down on those scams, often to the detriment of real authors. But does Amazon want this? After all, they earn a percentage of the royalties for all books sold on their platform, including the scam books. So do they really have an incentive to crack down on th...
Even though a sudden price change on your book is often indicative of a scam, there are legitimate times when Amazon will change the price of your book without asking the authors. So how do you know if the price change is because of Amazon or a scam? Well, there are a couple steps you can take:
There are two steps that authors should take to fight against these scammers: 1. Keep Amazon informed 2. Immediately discover when you are being scammed Let's take those two actions and expand on them…
Jan 1, 2001 · A uniquely endearing book with universal themes of class, family, coming of age, and the thrill of discovery, Homer Hickam's Rocket Boys is evocative, vivid storytelling at its most magical. In 1999, Rocket Boys was made into a Hollywood movie named October Sky starring Chris Cooper, Jake Gyllenhaal and Laura Dern.
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After several mishaps in town with their dangerous steel missile projectiles, the boys set up a rocket center on an old dump site and called it Cape Coalwood, complete with a cement launch pad and a “blockhouse,” or building for the rocketeers— projection, made of scavenged wood and tin.
- Kirkus Reviews
Jan 11, 2000 · Homer now regrets that he insisted on adding an "Author's Note" in this book concerning the "liberties" he took in telling the story because some reviewers took that to mean he'd not told the truth. In his note in the follow-up memoir, The Coalwood Way, he wrote: "Memoirs are tough things to write.
Jan 11, 2000 · Lush and lyrical, Rocket Boys is a uniquely American memoir: A powerful, luminous story of coming of age at the end of the 1950s, of a mother’s love and a father’s fears, and of growing up and getting out.
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Hickam vividly evokes a world of close communal ties in which a storekeeper who sold him saltpeter warned, “Listen, rocket boy. This stuff can blow you to kingdom come.” Hickam is candid about the deep disagreements and tensions in his parents’ marriage, even as he movingly depicts their quiet loyalty to each other.
