Updates to In the Name of Roma

I just finished my conversion of In the Name of Roma to Kindle format. In doing so, I have found a number of small formatting issues and small spelling errors in the book that have frustrated me. I am going back through and fixing these and will be updating the PDF version to match the changes that have gone into the Kindle version.

If you are curious about the kindle version of In the Name of Roma, please check it out on Amazon.

Christmas Time and Time For a Sale

Its Christmas time. What a better time that now to offer up a sale. Besides, I still need to buy some presents myself. So here is the deal:

You can buy any of my books (In the Name of Roma, The Coming Thunder or The Falcon and the Gladiator) for just $8. If that is not enough, you can get all three of the above plus the original North African Air Campaign for $25.

To get the deal, do not use the BUY NOW buttons from the blog. Instead Paypal me the money directly and include Christmas'13 in the message some where. That will solve problems later. If you had already purchased one of the books from me this month, don't fret, you can still do the $25 deal. Just subtract what you have already bought this month from the total and send me the rest.

Still not sure if you think the books are worth the money, don't take my word for it. Look at the reviews.:

From Grant Dyck: http://soldatetain.wordpress.com/2013/12/14/in-the-name-of-roma-italians-on-the-russian-front/
From Robert Avery: http://vislardica.com/vl_new_and_updated10.htm You may have to scroll down the page to find the review.
From the Itinerrant Hobbyist: http://itineranthobbyist.blogspot.com/2013/10/fan-made-scenario-book-in-name-of-roma.html
From Benito: http://mylardiesgames.blogspot.com/2013/09/italians-in-russia-forgotten-army.html
From Gary Amos: http://wargamesleadslifenstuff.blogspot.com/2013/10/chris-stoesen-scenario-books.html
And Ray Rousell: http://onelover-ray.blogspot.com/2013/09/in-name-of-roma-wwii-scenarios-for.html
Also I received a very nice review in a recent Miniature Wargames & Battlegames magazine (issue 368) from Neil Shuck on page 68.

From the For Sale page on my blog, you can also get more information including sample scenarios.

Mucking around with a camera in desparate need of help

Well, I am working on finishing out the book. Since pictures are important, I have stolen my wife's camera and tripod and set myself to work. Rather than setting up any particular scenario, I threw something together to take a few "test" pictures to play around with the camera and its settings. Well here is what I came up with.

I set up the table to have a small river with a ford and a village beyond it. The Italians were storming their way across the ford with a rifle section while two LMG teams were providing cover fire. There are a few casualties among the charging Italians. In the village are two squads of Soviets and a MMG team behind a fence. The MMG team has suffered a few casualties but I am not sure you can even see the casualty markers behind the fence. Now, on to the pictures.

I tried to crop the picture down to just the main action. The shot is over the shoulders of the attacking Italians as they head towards the MMG location.

Here is a shot of one of the Russian Squads as it rushes towards the sound of the guns.

Here is a different angle of the Soviet MMG Team. You can just make out one of the casualty figures there. Plus some brave Socialist cows standing before the enemy. Is including livestock a good idea in these pictures?

This is similar to one of the above images but cropped differently.

Just a generic picture of the town before miniatures were inserted. Is a generic terrain shot like this useful?

I need help with this as I don't have a good eye for what makes a great picture. I have a Cannon Rebel digital camera. I set the fStop to 9.0 and the ISO to 1600 for these pictures. I read about these things on Trouble at the Mill's blog but really don't understand them other than it lets in more light and light is good. Would pictures like this be interesting to anyone purchasing a scenario supplement (provided they were related to the scenarios of course)?