Kin Platt Message Board
Jeff Scott posts on 6/2/2012 1:13:46 AM
I've been trying to find out who has the copyrights to the Kin Platt Book, Sinbad and Me. I loved the book as a kid, and have been trying to find a copy for years now. (just can't quite justify paying over $100 for it) I can't believe there's no publisher out there that wouldn't put this unique gem of a book back in circulation. I'd gladly do the scanning and editing to prep the book for use as an E-reader myself if it meant that kids, (young and no longer young) could have this to read again. I'd pay $20 for a paperback copy or $30 for a hardback and would buy several. Please make it available again if you can... :-)
Guess who posts on 2/26/2012 2:30:13 AM
All nine of the Kin Platt mysteries (see entry below) published as eBooks by Prologue Books, a division of F&W Crime, are now available at the Kindle Store on Amazon.
Chris Platt posts on 2/18/2012 1:21:47 AM
Hi John, Yes,Sinbad was one of my father's best, and is a cult favorite to this day. We are hoping to republish it someday, but haven't found any interested publishers just yet. In the meantime, I have just three copies left, all precious, obviously. I wouldn't sell it you but I could LEND it to you. You just MUST promise to return it. However, I just wonder if it may be too much for a 4-year-old. It was written for, and about, teenagers. Maybe you should start your son off with one of the Big Max I Can Read books. I have some of those, too. Try finding me and contacting me on one of the big social networking sites, we can exchange email addresses and you can send me your snailmail address if you like.
john parham posts on 2/17/2012 10:23:04 PM
Chris , When I was a kid I had a teacher that read books after lunch. One magical book that stayed with me for years was "Sinbad and me". Your dad was a wonderful writer whose stories bloomed like a flower. I have a 4 year old. I would love to read him that great tale of mystery. Could buy it on amazon but I would much rather give you the money. What can you tell me? John
Steve posts on 11/18/2011 2:19:14 PM
Wonderful news, all you Kin Platt fans. F&W Media, a hundred-year-old publishing house based in Ohio, will be publishing eBook versions of all of Kin's previously published adult mystery titles. Included are: The Pushbutton Butterfly,The Kissing Gourami, The Princess Stakes Murder, The Giant Kill, Match Point for Murder, The Body Beautiful Murder,The Screwball King Murder, Dead as They Come, and Murder in Rosslare. These books also will be available as P-O-D hardcovers. The eBooks will be created in formats for Kindle, Nook and Kobo.
Chris Platt posts on 9/2/2011 3:06:43 PM
Hi Laurence, It is hard to tell what show the caricature is from without my seeing it, but, if I had to guess, I would say it was from There's A Girl in My Soup (1968, I think). At that time, my father was doing theatrical caricatures for the Village Voice, and YOUR father had taken over some role in that play. It is also possible that the artwork is from one of the TV shows your father was in during the 60s, which were filmed in NYC. Can you send me a picture of it to my email address which you can find online?
Laurence Hugo Jr. posts on 9/2/2011 2:14:17 PM
I've recently been given a pen/ink drawing of my father by Kin Platt and am trying to get info about when and what show (dad was a N.Y. actor)it might be from.Any info would be appreciated.Thanking you in advance,Laurence Hugo
Chris Platt posts on 7/16/2011 11:32:07 PM
Hi Cynthia, welcome to the board. I think the best way for you to have your answer about the pathetic paperback version is to have your own copy of the unabridged hardcover edition. Give me your email address -- or just post it on the Kin Platt Facebook page -- and I'll ask you via email for your snailmail address to send you a copy.
Cynthia posts on 7/16/2011 11:03:19 PM
Does anyone have a hardcover copy of "The Blue Man"?
I have a paperback and in Chapter 23, a few pages before the end of the chapter, there is a misprint and I would really love to know what Kin Platt really wrote, as opposed to guessing at it.
Here is the text, starting with the sentence that starts the paragraph the misprint is in. The next sentence is the misprint:
"Well that was pretty good news at that. okay and it looked all lit up like there was a big party going on or something."
As you can see, the second "sentence" isn't capitalized and it looks like it might've said something like "We got there okay and it looked all lit up like there was a big party going on or something."
But I'd really like to know what it actually said. My paperback is so badly beat up it wouldn't hurt anything to just make a small note on the page.
Chris Platt posts on 3/11/2011 10:15:35 AM
Hi Dave, Thanks for the tip on Project Gutenberg. Our hope, still, is to somehow, someday, make some money on the treasure-trove of Kin Platt books. Gutenberg creates and distributes eBooks free-of-charge, mostly those whose copyrights have expired, but also some where the copyright holder has given them permission. We may eventually offer that permission to Gutenberg for some of the titles we believe have no commercial potential (right now, sadly, that appears to be ALL of them), so, as you suggest, they can at least find their way back into the public eye.
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