Will Opposes Grooming, but Supports Indie Publishing

The Republicans should drag out the Ketanji Brown Jackson hearings and call as witnesses all the pedophiles to whom she gave lenient sentences. Then the GOP should call Judge Jackson back to defend her sentencing. Doing so reinforces the GOP's anti-grooming narrative, set so brilliantly by Governor Ron DeSantis. Really MAGA nation, you see DeSantis slicing and dicing Disney and the media like a Cossack marauding through a Jewish village on the River Bug and you want to go back to Trump?

What Will's Reading: Titans. Publishers Chris Kennedy (who published Those in Peril, which has our own Palmerston's Iron Clads) and William Alan Webb have written a book describing the Indie publishing industry for science fiction, fantasy and horror authors. Lots of facts, details, and experiences from a bevy of writers. We mainlined Titans last night, nodded along, said, 'yep' and 'uh-huh' and 'that happened to me' or 'I did that'. This book confirms much of what we knew and suspected. Titans is a manual and a rally cry against trad publishing - those poor saps. 

We read Titans and thought, 'We're a well established Indie author' but wondered how we could expand. We're redoubling our social media efforts. New Twitter account. We've thought about running some ads but aren't sure where. In other words, we're stuck. One obvs answer is to write Esersito Italliano, which would break us into the Italian market. Not this summer. Our strongest market remains D-Day + Australia. To our knowledge we have never sold a book in the Netherlands. Huh. Wait, no, we just checked and we sold one...World War 1990: ANZACs. Huh again.

No, the ju-ju lies with World War 1990: Battle of the GIUK Gap. We upped our research game with The Weser and are going to have to up it again with GIUK Gap. We'll write at least one Soviet submarine trying to sneak through the Gap, General Lebed and the 106th Guards Airborne Division, we'll probably bring back our Sovietski Backfire bomber pilots. A very Soviet-centric novel. You know, since we can't collude with Inforos anymore.

The Great Nuclear War of 1975 is doing great. Of course it is. We are among the best there is at what we do. This morning it's #18 on Amazon's alternate history category. Yesterday it cracked the top 10. Which is nice. On the third nuke book front, it looks like Admiral Larry Chambers will be in command of the anti-warlord task force. The task force won't attack the Black Panthers first, as the Casper suits are worried about going after a black warlord before a white one. I dunno, too current year? This chapter will be completed by May Day.