Saturday Updates

We have now read through the entire Great Salvation of 1976 manuscript. We need to write the concluding chapter and fill in some bits, but overall, we have a novel. It's been a grueling but great month's work. We have one nuke novel of 75,000 words and another of 70,000 with a planned third. We could get The Great Nuclear War of 1975 out this year if we wanted to. Seventy-Six still needs a lot of work and the plan is for a back to back release. So next year.

Actually, we don't really know how 76 ends. The final chapter is full of political machinations, the meeting of the electoral college, the inauguration at The Greenbrier. We'll need more scenes, but even with additions is that enough?

By June 1st sales for May will equal sales for April. More impressively, sales for this year will equal sales for all of last year. You read that right. Halfway through 2021 we've matched sales for 2020.

Sales for Nederland continue to taper off, but sales for the Israel Strikes books are up. This has little to do with Operation Guardian of the Walls. Basically, we gained a ton of new readers via WW1990 and those readers have discovered the Israel Strikes series. 

Re-reading the above just now, if two technothriller series sell, why not three? What's a new idea we could get into? Hmmmm. [Seriously?-Ed] It's fun to think about it. *

Which brings us to summer plans. We're gonna spend Memorial Day weekend thinking about Israel Strikes. We'll see, but we doubt it. Then we're gonna think about The Final Storm, which stands at 45,000 words. We'll do that in the Autumn (okay, we can do it now if we wanted).

We want to do the summer sneak in.

We hate having open novels, like The Final Storm.

We think we can crank out The Weser real fast.

What to do?

There's no reason why we can't work on getting the nuke novels ready while cranking out a new novel during the next three months.  

We think we've answered our question. And we wrote the first scene yesterday. 

*Not China. Or maybe China? Remember Putin's War? Baaaaa...there's already too much to do.