Has it arrived yet? What did you think. 
My apologies Chris, I somehow didn't reply to this in May. (‘it’ being a copy of your QE2 A Photographic Journey).
And yes I did like it very much. I would have liked it more if it had been six times bigger with many more photos. (not a crit Chris, just musing).
Your photographs are really superb and I think you have a clever formula with your two ‘brands’ (Story and Photographic Journey).
And your subject matter will ensure you sell all your titles on board on every voyage on all the three new Canard ships. Of course the readers of this forum might only buy two of your titles, but they cannot deny that you have the eye for the great pics and you work hard at getting them.
Did Cunard invite you to photograph the QE2 and later QM2, or did you do it initially on your own initiative? And once published did you get invited to lecture, as I did? I‘m sure Cunard get deluged with requests, just as publishers do, and they rarely say ‘yes’. And on that subject how did you sign to History Press? Did you find them or did they find you? Again I was lucky enough to invited in 1983 (by the then relatively small Piatkus Books now part of Littlejohn) to author a book. It is now in its 17th edition and in its 26 years has sold some quarter of a million copies. Because of that I was asked to author another then another and providing they too sell, you keep on going. It’s this which led to my work on the QE2.
However my titles are too specialist to sell on ships (apart from when I was lecturing / cooking on board) but they do well on Amazon and on my own website.
And regarding on board lecturing, I would have course loved to do more than I did, but there is a limit to the amount of work for no pay one can do. And even with the limited discounts for lecturers we were always spent rather more than planned. (buying shore tours, memorabilia in the on board shops and items like your books, and of course the bar bills!) So we limited ourselves to one ship (you know who) and one cruise per year.
Would I lecture on the ‘world’s youngest fleet’?
Well you said it Chris … fee or no fee, it’s an astonishing privilege no matter what the ship.
But would I? I’ve not been asked so Rob can sleep tonight.
When are you next on?