Various on a Monday Metal

Yesterday at the gym we did 15 minutes on the treadmill at 4 and another 5 minutes a 4.5. Then we did 15 each on the rowing machine, rope-pulley and Stairmaster. Felt good, felt real good. 

Last November we cast about looking for new places to write and we found new places to write. Behold The Brazen Head and our first contribution: 'In 1987 this scrawny, disgruntled 14-year-old became a metalhead. It’s an old story. I hated school and life and everything, really. Metal was the best available outlet for expressing that. I stamped my feet and pumped my fist to drums and bass thumping like a British coal ring jack hammer. I wore all the black metal band T-shirts and grew a long, blond mullet that chicks told me was soft and lustrous. Whitesnake’s Slide It In was the first metal album I bought with my own money. But David Coverdale’s hair metal band was a gateway to the likes of Metallica, Led Zeppelin, Ozzy and other bands more ‘respectable’ within the metal community. With glee, I discovered that Ozzy had been in a band before his solo career. Who knew?'

The editor is gonna let me write about Star Wars next. [Greeeaaaaaaat-Ed]. We should have two other pieces in other publications out this week.

What a month. Below our February KU reads:

That's not a spike, it's a plateau. Yes sales seem to be dropping off the last few days but today they're coming back already. We'll see. That spike toward the end of the month represents our best KU read day ever, we believe. 

We've been doing a ton of stuff online lately, so there's definitely a correlation between posting on Gab and sales. But it's impossible to say.

When discussing doing a third Israel Strikes novel, a friend remarked, 'I dunno, I gotta re-read the books.' That's an excellent point and maybe a warning. It's been a long time since Israel Strikes: War of the Red Sea came out. People just may have lost interest. Comparisons are difficult because both novels were released before we added the KU option. Not surprisingly WOTRS' KU reads outnumber IS KU reads by 1/3 over their lifetime. More people simply read the Kindle E book version back in 2014 and 2015.