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Jeff Scott posts on 12/29/2012 2:03:06 AM Guess what I got for Christmas? My very own copy of Sinbad and Me! Can't wait to get enough time to curl up and read it. It's a paperback version and it's funny that the price on the front is 60 cents. My wife paid over 100 X that much... Happy holidays to you all
Chris Platt posts on 12/22/2012 12:47:28 PM Hi Steve, well that might be a nice XMas present! Never heard of that outfit, nor the series you mentioned, but I will check them out and let you (and everybody) know if it pans out. Thanks so much and have a great holiday.
Steve McCormick posts on 12/22/2012 12:22:48 PM Hi Chris, I would like to see these books re-released also. Much like the Mad Scientist Books were re-released. Maybe we should contact Jill from purple house press. They do wonderful work!


aaa posts on 12/13/2012 2:05:02 PM Hey Andy, Thanks so much for your kind offer to help with digitizing the Sinbad books. I think this would be a huge undertaking because there are no electronic files, as they were all written before computers and word-processing. And we do not have any of the original manuscripts, either, so each book would have to be taken apart gently, and each fragile, yellowing page scanned one-at-a-time. And then there's the typesetting using whatever software is now the standard. An eBook publisher in Massachusetts did just that a year ago with nine of my father's adult mysteries, even came up with new -- and far better -- covers. You can look at previous posts here for details. But I think they exhausted their resources producing the books and haven't marketed them the way we would have hoped. To-date, they have sold a total of 36 copies of the nine books. I can't imagine paying someone (you, for example)to do all that work, especially when the payoff is likely to be so pitiful. Thanks so much, Chris Platt
Chris Platt posts on 12/13/2012 12:30:52 AM Hi Jeff, no, I can't say as I ever wrote much fiction. I was a journalist for about 40 years, so the only fiction was the occasional expense account entry. After retirement, I wrote a few blogs ... you can look me up in the archives of Huffington. Never saw myself writing the great American novel, just didn't have that kind of whatever-it-was that my father had.
Andy Valencia posts on 12/12/2012 8:05:42 PM BTW, I'd be happy to help if you want to convert any or all of the Sinbad books to digital. That would be the first step in making Kindle type editions available, which would be an easy way to make the stories available again. I have all four books, but it looks like they're becoming rare. Regards... Andy
Jeff Scott posts on 12/12/2012 7:15:30 PM still curious... have you followed in your fathers footsteps and written any fiction? Always willing to add a new author to my reading list.
Jeff Scott posts on 9/20/2012 10:12:15 PM All Right, Thanks! I'm shopping! :-) hopefully these titles are a little easier to find than Sinbad and Me. Outstanding book, but I'd get that "raised eyebrow" look from my wife if I paid $100 for it... :-)
Chris Platt posts on 9/20/2012 1:14:37 PM Hi Jeff,yes there IS a Sinbad trilogy, or, depending on how you look at it, a quartet. After Sinbad and Me in 1966, there was Mystery of the Witch Who Wouldn't in 1969, and then The Ghost of Hellsfire Street, in 1980. However, my father's first book was The Blue Man, and was kind of a prequel to the Sinbad books. It featured Steve Forrester as the main character, but there was no Sinbad the bulldog. Sinbad came to be based on MY bulldog, Romeo, which I didn't yet have when he wrote Blue Man. It is a wonderful book in its own right, and way different from the Sinbad books that followed. So, four stories about Steve, only three about the remarkable Sinbad.
Jeff Scott posts on 9/18/2012 3:19:59 AM Chris, I didn't realize that there was a Sinbad trilogy.. I had only read Sinbad and Me. What are the other two books? I loved the one I read, (read many times) and would buy it again if I could find it, but didn't know it was a series. just curious... have you written anything? :-)
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