Saturday Updates

This is post 4881. We will write post 4900 sometime in April. 

A woman has two X chromosomes, a vagina, uterus, ovaries, breasts, hips, can carry and give birth to children and menstruates every 28 days from puberty through menopause.  

Mrs. Stroock did the taxes yesterday. Yikes. 

Retired Australian General Mick Ryan has a pretty good summary of the Ukraine War. We remark once again that the Ukes are great at info war while the Ruskis are terrible at it. No one really knows what comparative casualties are, and the western media repeats Uke talking points verbatim. There are many known unknowns and a few unknown unkowns.

Each week we are less inclined to support Trump in 2024. Sorry, he's not doing the things we wanted to see him do. Okay, he's lost some weight. But overall, Trump is acting like it's still 2015. He hasn't upped his game. His attacks lack focus, they're all over the place. Why pick a fight with Mo Brooks? Actually, we like Trump suing Hillary! Why not? Don't get us wrong. Trump won. But right now, we'd rather he didn't win the GOP nod in 2024.

On to the things.

We spent a lot of time this week staring at our computer and wondering what the third nuke book should be about. On Thursday we finally had our breakthrough and wrote a quick thousand words. The 1977 chapter will be about reestablishing sovereignty over all of the United States. There will be several contacts with local warlord types and assorted whack job preachers, including one obvious wacko. Prepare for a blast from the past. After consultations with a fellow North American, the Royal Navy will be dealing with Caribbean pirates. Heh. This chapter is our April project. 

The Great Nuclear War of 1975 has been available for nearly three weeks. Sales started slow, grew and have plateaued maybe...15% below where Nederland and Three Seas plateaued. The book hovers between 20-30 in its category and has 38 ratings averaging 4.1 stars. As usual the top four selling locations are the US, UK, CA, and AU. The Great Nuclear War of 1975 will not flop. 

As suspected we aren't seeing a sales spike of other titles.

We finished The Great Salvation of 1976 readthrough and made all the changes. The MS is 68,000 words. By way of comparison, The Great Nuclear War of 1975 is 80,000 words. This novel deals with interesting problems of reconstruction (elections, the Alaska Pipeline, currency etc.), has a nice little war, and follows Matt across the Midwest. There's something missing from 76, though.  Doom and urgency perhaps?