I found this while going through some old game storage boxes of mine. Pretty sure I got this at a con in Lexington, KY in 90 or 91. If anyone’s interested I can do some scans. Just for nostalgia/fun.
“How To $ell Your Game Design” by Lou Zocchi (1988, RPGs) https://imgur.com/gallery/1tM5NkG
EDIT: A folder of hastily done scans (some pages need to be rotated, sorry) - [scans removed after response from Gamescience]
Colonel Zocchi is a treasure
I would love to see the scans of it! It looks amazingly designed by the 1988 standard. I wonder if he used some desktop publishing for it, or is it all zine-bashed together.
Also, you should scan it to archive it. archive.org seems like a perfect place for this kind of ephemera.
Ah yeah, that’s a good idea! I’ll link here after I do that.
I would also love to see the scans. There is a part of me that aches knowing stuff like this will be lost to the mists of time. I remember reading an old issue of Dragon magazine once and was shocked by how much modern thinking in game design actually originated in these old sources.
Someone should really start some kind of ttrpg ephemera preservation project. Hell, I’d spend some budget on that if someone wanted to spearhead it.
I saw him do a talk on selling and designing games at New Orleans Comic Con in. . . must have been 2014. I might still have the notes I took somewhere.
Do you think there are corpyright concerns with something like this? I have some other things that might be of interest too like Thieve’s Guild and Gangbusters (both loose leaf books).
The safest thing to do is to reach out to the owner of the product. Here it is pretty simple, as it is only one author publishing under his company that he still owns.
The good thing about archive.org is that it aims to be a digital library and their main reason for existing is preserving of all kinds of stuff, both digital and digitized real world items. They generally have a pretty good track record of defending their right to preserving the items on their servers.
I am not a lawyer, but uploading something archive.org is similar to donating to your local library. I say that coming to it mostly from retro computing angle, but I have also seen scans of magazines for example preserved there. I think you should be in the clear when it comes to copyright concerns in that case.
Oh wow, this is fascinating!
(ok after waiting way to long for the archive to load i now see that it’s temporarily offline lol)
@Von_Bednar and @jasoncordova link to a quick batch of scans added in the first post, the last two pages are a letter to Zocchi from Bernard Bereuter about various game business they were apparently working on (dated March 5, 1992) weird?
Edit: scans removed after response from Gamescience
The work is definitely copyrighted and the author is still alive. You should contact him for permission if you want to put it online. If you’re not going to do that because you’re pretty sure he’ll say no then you know in your heart that what you’re doing is wrong.
@JamesWallis Yep, I got a response from Gamescience letting me know the book is still used in lectures. All links/files removed.
I also found out they’re headquartered in Bardstown, KY which is where my wife’s family lives just an hour and a half away. Small world! 
