If You Knew Anything About Publishing...

...You'd know not to contact Will Stroock.

As we write this there's an email in our inbox titled, 'A Line through the Desert', and we're afraid to open it. Okay, it's a scam publisher press asking if I am the author of A Line through the Desert. We replied, 'I am the author of A Line through the Desert and you are a scam artist. Get fucked. Sincerely....

Seriously. A Line through the Desert and its sequel, Blooms are vanity projects. I had to berate you people and threaten to stop blogging to gin up sales. These are backlist books that readers pick up after they've blown through all the alternate history, alien, and Israeli blow em ups. If this guy knew anything about publishing, he'd know that. That we did A Line through the Desert first shows what we knew back then.

Here's what we wrote almost one year ago today. Huh. 

We are working on 2022 predictions for the communists. Make yours below.

We've lifted twice this week but really aren't feeling much motivation to run. What's up with that?

A pair of young Marines walked into Duncan Donuts this morning, I mean, kids. They're too young to even remember Iraq. The fact whacked me over the head like dead fish. 

OMG! We just realized. Book of Boba Fett tonight!

We are indeed getting close to wrapping up The Weser. There's some persistent nagging coming from the inner voice. What about that thing you wanted to do? What about the other thing? What about the guy in the place you wanted to write about? Naaaa. At some point one must needs be done. It's been over a year since we published a novel. Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good. 

Powerline has a great news wrap about Harry Reid, John Madden, Biden, et al. Go there. We're hesitant to speak ill of the dead, though we doubt Reid was. We'll just say that Reid, more than any other senator, undermined the mores and traditions of the senate. Remember, Reid was the leader who abolished the filibuster for federal appointees and judges below the Supreme Court. Thank you, Senator, for Justices Gorsuch, Kavanagh, and Barrett.  

On John Madden, he influenced our life just like everyone else. His coaching days were before our time, but he must have called every big Giants game of the 1980s, including Super Bowl XXI. Later we played a ton of Madden football. Madden '94 was our fav. Younger reader(s), Madden was the most realistic football game of the time, even more that Tecmo, itself a classic. Many a college afternoon we wiled away playing Madden with our buddy, Paul, with whom we are still close.