Brian Brock

As a kid I loved spending time in the library as much as playing baseball and football, reading "The Boxcar Children" novels and exploring the novels I was too young to read. I dreamed of being a writer from a very young age and after doing an episode of a Top Ten sitcom and a garbage can full of near misses with my feature film scripts, I met Pierre Berg and helped him write his Holocaust memoir, SCHEISSHAUS LUCK, which was published in 2008.

I am now finishing the memoir of a British WWII POW who spent almost two years in E715, a POW work camp that was part of the Auschwitz complex, and I'm nursing to infancy my own ebook publishing company, Blue Coffee Books. One of the first books under the Blue Coffee Books banner will be THE MONK AND THE MARINES, a novel I found in someone's trash while delivering newspapers in 1974. I was 14 years old and the book made a tremendous impact on me and helped shape my writing style (and I still have that copy of the book). It's one of the first Vietnam War novels written by a Vietnam Vet. The author, Philip Kingry, contacted me after I had written a review of his book on the website "Goodreads" and after we became friends he graciously accepted my offer to republish his amazing novel. If someone had stopped me on my paper route and informed me that someday I'll be publishing the novel I had in my hand I would have told them they were full of "scheiss." Hmm, there might be a lesson in there somewhere.