Saturday Updates

There's a new review of World War 1990: Battle of the Three Seas up on Amazon. We can see that the review knocked the star ratings down, so it's probably not good. We're very reluctant to check it out. Smart authors never look at reviews, and we're a smart author. Even with all the positive reviews coming in, and were averaging 4 stars with 30 reviews in on Good Reads, man you see one guy tearing your work up....And if he points out typos, well, it's like an existential kick in the face. Why we remember last summer we had a double bill on Pershing published in Military History Matters and we freaked out becuase we read it and saw one fact was wrong.

[Don't do it, don't do it, man...-Ed]

Ok, it was three stars and titled Meh, 'The plot was scattered and didn’t follow a logical progression. It was written in Clancy style but falls far short.' We can live with that.

On to business. We've sent Debbie the short story comp.

We have read through World War 1990: Nederland. There's still a few things to smooth out, but overall we're done. We will format this week. The opening blockbuster is tension filled. The naval chapter is understated and tight. It feels like a stand-alone short story. The Klazienaveen chapter is long, moves around a lot and is very busy. We like the PM chapter, it conveys what we wanted it to convey. The final battle is good and has some differentiation from say, the Battle of Point Wilderness in Polish Storm. Nederland is 75,000 words, the longest book in the World War 1990 series. What we're saying is World War 1990: Nederland is as good as we can make it.

Given the way things are shaking out, the short story compilation will almost certainly be released before World War 1990: Nederland. Of course that's all contingent upon sales dropping by September 1st. So far sales aren't dropping.

We've spent all week working on the Battle of the Roki Tunnel and it's coming on fine despite the fact we realized our mental picture of the battlefield is all wrong. World War 1990: The Final Storm is now 20,000 words. We think it might be as many as 100,000 when we're done. There's a lot to cover.

We've done no work on The Great Nuclear War of 1975 this week and it stands at 42,000 words. This will be our summer project and we intend to have the rough draft done by the end of the summer. Of course 21 September is the end of the summer...heh. We're also going to sneak in and write on Final Storm chapter in July and August.

One final thing. If we don't see some copies of Blooms move this weekend this blog is going on strike. Buy Blooms or we shoot the dog. Try us, motherfuckers. Click here. Do it now!