Saturday Updates

Good news. The power washer worked. Bad news. We wanted to buy a new power washer. Worse news. She wanted the deck done ASAP. Surprising news. The 13 year old wanted to help. What's up with that?

On to the Russian Front, yesterday one of those national directors of such and such intel types testified that Russia wants Trump to win. Hot Air has the story. Remember the July 29 AP report on same actually mentioned one of our articles. Sooner or later someone is going to come looking for us, some reporter, right? Right? Wouldn't one of these people have some, you know, journalistic curiosity about who's writing all these Biden bashing pieces, and why? Just a thought.

Our study of the War of Northern Aggression continues apace. We don't like Jefferson Davis at all. Too prone to micro-managing and the president has no business whatsoever being anywhere near the battlefield. In fact, when the Army of the Potomac was approaching Richmond in '62, Davis should have bugged the hell out to Roanoke.

Business.

We haven't been blogging as much because after 4000 + posts we're just not certain it's worth all that much effort anymore. We're doing a longer post a day and we think we'll stick with that for a while.

Sales are definitely declining. If they continue to do so that'll mean a 1 September release for the short stories. We're almost done reading  through the short story comp. It looks good and we're quite  pleased with the physical product. We haven't even looked at the Nederland proof yet. If the short story comp doesn't do well that will move up the Nederland release. 

The Great Nuclear War of 1975 is 71,000 words. The Korean War is done. We've figured out our man trekking cross country, but we still don't know where he starts and where he's going.  We've written our way to the Bicentennial and we're wondering how much farther to go. Certainly the election. Then maybe a real quick chapter covering everything till 1980, a future history (2026?), and a chapter showing a couple of Air Force officers reverse engineering the actual war. We know the last line of this novel. Maybe 100,000 words for this one.

We established a presidential commission (Rockefeller loved that sort of thing) for reconstruction. The commission is made up of prominent persons from the era. These include Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Carl Sagan (jerk), George Will, NBC News' John Chancellor, George Young of the US Olympic Committee and later GM of the Giants. Ideas?

We've done a little work on The Final Storm and intend to complete another chapter by the end of the month. That'll get is to 30,000. 

Still no idea what non-World War 1990 book we're writing in 2021.