The Aftermath is Here

The Aftermath of 1976 is available for purchase. Do us a favor. If you buy or KU the book, post in comments below, so we can see what kind of sales influence this blog has.  

Here's how sales of The Aftermath of 1976 will probably go. Sales will start off slowly but quickly build momentum as the Amazon algorithm does its job and word gets out. They'll probably peek in late January or February. From there sales will fall off about 20% per month till The Aftermath of 1976 joins the backlist. The backlist accounts for 1/3rd of our sales. Interesting note, World War 1990: The Weser has pulled ahead of The Great Nuclear War of 1975, which means 75 is on its way to the backlist.

Readers have been anticipating The Aftermath of 1976 for some time. We know this because if one searches us, on Amazon autocorrect does 'The Great Nuclear War of 1975, book two'. At this very moment sales are fine. A word on checking sales. Don't obsess. Check in the morning, or at night, whichever. But don't check all day. This is the path to insanity. 

If sales proceed as predicted, we'll make up our publishing expenses in the first month. Those expenses include editing, formatting, cover design, and now final proofing. This is a simple line-read meant to catch typos.* Proofing has increased our expenses but will hopefully add peace of mind. We'll see if it's worth it. 

So that's that. Three books out in 2022. We put out three books in 2020. We're able to do that partly because of happenstance. Books get delayed and put aside. We're also able to do that because we have various projects in various stages. Sometimes it just all comes together. We didn't publish any books in 2021.  That was a mistake. We will never go another year without publishing a book. As for what to write next year...

Palmerston's War: 1862. This book would be a compilation of short stories expanding on our short story published by Chris Kennedy in Those in Peril. One story would be about a British warship that used to be on the West African anti-slavery patrol having to deal with Confederates and their slaves.** Another story would be about a massive clash somewhere outside of Washington DC. Think Waterloo but with Grant vs...some British general. Here's our article about the prospect of such a war in Military History Monthly.

Speaking of military history articles...we've been casting about for something else to write in an attempt the recreate our former triad of novels, this blog, and Russian collusion. I dunno, what if we just worked on a couple of military history articles next year? The pay isn't great but it's something to do, and we love posting, 'Our latest article in [Insert magazine title]. It impresses people, especially the babes. We won't write for those bastards at Decision Games who stiffed us and put someone else's name on our work. We've plenty of other options. Military Heritage for example. See all the links at the sidebar. We really want our triad back. 

Hmmm...thinking about what kind of military history articles to write has set the mind alight. Just what could we do? We can (and have) written about anything. From ancient warfare to Israel's War with the Gazans. That creative spark is nice. Of course, our library of a thousand + history books is still all boxed up after Hurricane Ida in 2021. We shall have to remedy this problem. The spark is the fun and most frivolous part of the job. After that comes hard, hard work. The payoff is seeing one's name in print. The thrill lasts maybe a minute. After that there's a longterm satisfaction. 

*Heh, you think trad published books don't have typos? Oh, my sweet summer child. Give us any trad published book and we'll find mistakes, and not just to, two, too problems. But untied where united should be, and sefl typos too. Get fucked, loser. 

**No, this would not be a Confederate bashing story. It's be a story about human relationships and a very complex issue. Nor would the story be an apologia.