Updates de Saturday

Alert reader(s) may have noticed a couple of additions to the sidebar and Future Projects page. For those readers who are not alert, check the sidebar and the Future Projects page. One of the updates is a piece we did on Pershing in that annoying Top 10 Things style. We did it just to see what would happen. Nothing happened. Unless they pay me, and I get paid a hundred a pop, we won't do it again.

Sales of World War 1990: Battle of the Three Seas remain strong. We still can't crack the top 20 in our Amazon category, it's an ego thing for us. People are cooped up and there's a glut of indy books for people who like to read our stuff. Book sales are not a zero sum game. Everyone who wants to read Three Seas will read Three Seas eventually. It's just that the sales curve is, and we can't believe we're going to say this, plateaued. 

A rough week of writing The Great Nuclear War of 1975, but we've finally got things on track and The Battle of Prudhoe Bay is primed for next week. Did you know in 1969 they sent a supertanker through the Northwest Passage?

We'll finish reading through Nederalndse today and send it on to Debbie next week. We're Waiting on the maps and cover. Come to think of it, we haven't heard from Rene in a while. Last time we checked in, she said she was swamped. Which is good. 

We completed the rough draft of Attack of the 50 Foot Communist and will edit it next week.

From there we need, we think, another short story. We thought a story in The Austrian Painter universe might be fun.  We had a ton of juju at first, but now we really don't know what to do. Maybe this is the Many Faced God telling us we're done? Let's see: Glucklitch One-Nine, the Pershing Thingy, Tie Dye Warrior, The Devil and Heavy Metal, Kamehameha's Navy, Attack of the 50 Foot Communist, Riders of the Centauri Range...It'll come down to th word count we suppose. Remember, all this book needs is an edit from Debbie and a quick read through from us. So when it's done it comes out quick.

For some reason we feel the short story comp should come out before Nederlandse. 

We wrote another piece for the Ruskis: 

Two months have passed since Governor Phil Murphy shut down New Jersey. The good citizens of this state have quarantined themselves, kept their children at home, gone out only as necessary; and they’re getting sick of it. As of Wednesday, 13 May, New Jersey has 141,560 Wuhan Coronavirus infections and 9,702 deaths. In confirmed cases, the Garden State is second only to Andrew Cuomo’s New York. States like Florida, Texas and Georgia have far fewer cases and are slowly opening back up. The quarantine debate rages nationwide and has taken a partisan bent. Democrats want to stay closed, forever it seems, Republicans want to open up regardless of risk.

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