Publication of Book

"The Sacred and the Profane: Twin Hammers at Midnight -- The 1st Battle of Savo Island"

I am attempting to raise funds to publish a book to raise awareness of a famous World War II naval night battle near Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands in August of 1942. I have presented the book to several famed publishing venues, but the manuscript has been turned down. My only remaining option is that of self-publishing through either iUniverse or Xlibris, but the problem is these people want between 7- 10K just to get the book out to the reading public.

It is my firm belief that all of our children should learn of the events of WWII, a war that to this day ensured the very freedoms we all enjoy even now, and of the many sacrifices our soldiers and sailors made, who laid down their lives to ensure our basic freedoms now.

Normal publishing venues, such as Random House and Dell Books, all say "We do not accept any unsolicited manuscripts, other than those presented to us through known literary agents." Try and find a viable literary agent and they all say, "We're booked and are not accepting any new clients." I am now officially in that limbo vortex known as a "Catch-22" with nowhere to turn other than this GoFundMe page.

The book is 435 pages long, has 54 tables and 115 figures, all of which are preeminently illustrations, maps and old B&W photos of the ships themselves. The title is "The Sacred and the Profane: Twin Hammers at Midnight -- The 1st Battle of Savo Island". Based on actual events as they occurred on 9 August 1942, the American and Allied navies would suffer an incredible loss of "four" heavy armored cruisers in a mere 31-minute night naval engagement led by the Imperial Japanese Navy's most well-known cruiser commander VADM Gunichi Mikawa. But Guadalcanal would  itself later become the very turning-point of the war, and once the Allies mobilized to turn back the Japanese attempt to take the Solomons and Guadalcanal, they would never come again. Time was on our side and the tide of battle would now swing much in favor of the American Navy -- and by 1943 the Americans had already begun their relentless push north towards Japan.

The book is impeccably written and formatted, and has a robust presentation of battle maps, battleships, cruisers and scrappy destroyers who fought and died during this time of great uncertainty. It is truly a story that SHOULD be allowed to get out there, and I expect it would have an immediate appeal to historians, military enthusiasts, American History professors and students, and even the mildly curious. But mostly it is for our kids, who need to understand what happened -- now some 70 years ago -- across the vast Pacific during a horrific time called World War II.