Mrs. Stroock and the Stroocklettes are at the midpoint of their trip to the great state of Indiana. Honestly it's fun for a bit but after a couple of days we get bored and filled with existential angst, dread and terror.
Our study of the War of Northern Aggression continues apace. We simply do not understand how anyone came out of this war thinking the South had a pool of talented generals from which to draw. We can think of maybe five, all the obvious ones. After that it's mediocrities like Bragg, indecisives like Joe Johnstone, and clowns like Polk. Sorry folks, there's only two Civil War generals that really matter and they both wore blue.
On to things.
The Great Nuclear War of 1975 is 60,000 words with the Korean War chapter moving along like a band of nuclear fallout wafting across the Midwest. We are pleased, but we don't know how we get out of this. That is, how do we get to where we want to go and what do we need to show. Slow recovery, yes. Reformation of political institutions, of course. The election of 1976 and maybe 1980. Maybe the last chapter is one scene per year from '77-'80?
Seven Stories is just about formatted. All that remains is a few finishing touches and ordering the proof. This will give us two proofs to read and review, the other being Nederland. Seven Stories comes first, on 1 September, unless sales unexpectedly rebound. We dunno, the release order just makes sense to us.
Those sales remain stubbornly strong, declining at a much slower rate than previous books. As noted before, Three Seas is lifting up all the other WW 1990 books. After The Final Storm, a book we haven't even thought about in two weeks, Esercito Italiano might make the most sense. The Final Storm is at 25,000 words. We need to think about which chapter we want to work on in August. We have the Roki Tunnel. We'll need to insert a chapter, and then we can do the Kazakh Coup. After that it's bombs away!
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