Saturday Updates

This is post 4888.

Spring has arrived in New Jersey, more or less. April is usually cold and wet here. Spring doesn't really come till May. We actually had sub-freezing mornings this week. We groan. Spring means having to pretend to care about our lawn. This year the Stroock girls will be re-learning what they learned about mowing the lawn last year. 

Another fine week of exercise.  Two sessions with the machines and plenty of walking. We think we're nearing our plateau and it might be time to switch to weights + walking. We'll see. We're putting on weight, but this is muscle. We know this because the size 38 shorts we keep for fitting purposes fit the same. We could wear them about if we really wanted to. We feel a touch trimmer, actually.

The things.

As of this writing The Great Nuclear War of 1975 is #16 in its category and has 65 ratings averaging 4.3 stars. Here's the first review from Britain, 'Good story but based heavily in the USA. The most interesting parts were centered in other parts of the world. Let’s hope the next book spends more time outside North America. Would recommend.' Well yes on the first part, agreed on the second part, and thanks on the third part.

We'll have 30 days of sales data on 5 April. 75 is really surging, with the reviews coming in fast, and it's going to come close to Nederland's or Three Sea's first month. We aren't seeing a surge in sales of other novels though, which means we've exhausted our pool of readers.  Exit question, how to find new readers? Whatever you're thinking reader(s), we've probably already thought of.

Another weird week with the 3rd nuke novel, with much staring at a screen and wondering, 'What the fuck happens next?' We think we got the third nuke novel's foreign chapter started and we feel good about next week. Ju-ju often comes slowly, then all at once. A fellow north American suggested calling this novel, 'The New American Order,' so that's what we'll go with for now. Overall, the MS is 3,000 words.

The slog through The Weser is taking longer than expected. We haven't finished Part-I: The Americans yet. This is actually the toughest section. We're overthinking and in danger of overediting. But can it be better, we ask ourselves. Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good, we remind ourselves. World War 1990: The Weser will be out sometime in July.