An Interview With Larry Hancock, Author of Someone Would Have Talked - Page 4

For the past year or so I have become interested in the RFK assassination. That is going to be my next project.

JFK Lancer (The publisher) seems to be a very supportive organization, have you been working with them for a long time?

 I first got involved with JFK Lancer by attending their conferences, one thing led to another, and I found myself chairing some sessions. Things just gelled from that point.

How are early sales of Someone Would Have Talked going?

Among researchers early sales are going well. There are many people interested in the JFK assassination. In general I would say that sales are going well.

Hindsight is 20/20, if you knew then how much time this project would take, would you have done it?

The project started as a research paper. I doubt that I would have started it with a book in mind.

You are obviously a fan of what the internet has to offer for an author such as yourself, yet you still opted to produce a real paper book; did you consider the e-book format?

Real books are better. Although real books have their own problems. If you are looking for a book in your local library and it is not a popular book, the chances are they have disposed of it. My wife is a librarian, and she has told me how books that have not been checked out for a while are disposed of.

One of the challenges facing an author today is competition for shelf space in the traditional bricks and mortar book store. Organizations like Amazon remove that barrier, how important is the internet for sales?

The internet is very important. It is almost impossible to get shelf space in the book stores. If we depended on the traditional system no niche author would have a chance.

Your book does an excellent job of explaining the likely culprits and the interplay between them, even the likely motives that each had. Is there a ‘smoking gun’ waiting to be uncovered?

I think it is unlikely. There are two possibilities that exist. Someone on their death bed may open a new chapter, or, some new official documentation may be made public.

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