We were thinking, as is our wont, of ways to grow the readership. back in the Israel Strikes and early World War 1990 days we ran lots of ads in military history magazines. Then in 2017 we released The Austrian Painter with no ads and produced the same results. The people reading Military Heritage that bought Israel Strikes will buy The Great Nuclear War of 1975. We've captured them. Advertising now is redundant. But what if we ran ads in survival and prepper magazines? These people should be a natural audience for the nuke books, no? We've sent some queries.
We spent an hour yesterday organizing our collection of military and history magazines in which we have published. We've got hard copies of almost everything and every magazine.* We organized by magazine and placed every issue in numerical order. We should take another afternoon and create a list of magazines and articles. [Okay, Rain Man-Ed]
The Aftermath of 1976 is selling...okay. Sales are following historical trends. Which is to say we're on track for big things. As of this writing 76 is our number three seller after 75 and The Weser. 76 has ten ratings, 3.9 stars. A couple of the early raters weren't that impressed. Whether that's the luck of the draw or an omen remains to be seen. Overall, there's every reason to be optimistic.
The New American Order is looking good. This week we read the refugee chapter and then we read it again. We are pleased. The British foreign adventure chapter remains to be finished. Reader(s) should ask themselves, what piece of real estate would the British want to reclaim if they felt they were a global power once again? From there we have to wrap up the future history chapter. TNAO is 74,000 words.
We had a good week with World War 1990: The Final Storm. We've been over the war prep chapter, the 'Mr. President, here are our strike options,' or, 'The Prime Minister's gone mad with this SAS raid idea' part of the book. This chapter looks much, much better. We're taking so much time because we're taking so much time to get TFS right. TFS isn't, like gonna be the most awesome thing ever. We once again note TFS is just another book in the World War 1990 series and not even the last. TNAO will be out before TFS.
Our little pro/anti-Trump article at 19fortyfive generated 14 comments, and we think, a negative review of The Great Nuclear War of 1975 on Amazon. Do click through. We think this because there's absolutely nothing political about 75. Does anyone today really have a strong opinion about Nelson Rockefeller? That's the whole point of Nelson Rockefeller. Maybe James Cannon made some fierce and bitter enemies in real life. Anyway, 19fortyfive's editor has asked for another piece, which we'll submit on Monday morning.
*History, Renaissance, Strategy & Tactics, World at War, Modern War, Military History Matters, Medieval Magazine, Medieval Warfare, Ancient Warfare, Maryland Historical Society, World War II, World War II Quarterly, Military Heritage, Civil War Quarterly...I think that's it. Nearly 20 years of magazine writing. In fact, Strategy & Tactics published our first article 20 years ago this July, Sparta's Defeat of Athens.
Interesting question as where the Brits would want to expand. I would think they would negotiate with the CCP for permanent ownership of Hong Kong. The CCP would probably need gold to buy food for their people. Also they (CCP) should be very interested the Ex-Far East Soviet Union and the mineral riches located there for them to take.
ReplyDeleteMaybe have the British attempt to create a "Suez Canal Zone" that they control, similar to what the USA had in panama? Could also serve as a buffer between Egypt and the Israelis in the Siani.
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