75 Years On

To shake this up a bit, we write from our new-old coffee shop. We'd give the coffee a B, B+ if we really had to. The satellite radio is on 90's hits. We've already heard Goo-Goo Dolls and Natalia Imbruglia. God help us. In other musical updates we've listened to half of Metallica's new album, and much to our surprise, it doesn't suck. We've never listened to Death Magnetic so our last reference is 2003's Some Kind of Monster....Donk! Donk! Donk! What we mean to say is, the bar is mighty low.

Happy Israeli Independence Day, 75 years. Wow. In 1947 Israel was a small country with a Third World economy. Now Israel is an economic, technological and military powerhouse. Israel's population is more than nine million, seven million of them Jews. There are more Jews in Israel than America now. 

We checked this morning, because we've been slipping Israel Strikes into #Israel75 hashtags on Twitter (marketing 101, people) and both Israel novels have dropped out of our top ten sales list. This is actually a good thing because sales of the Israel Strikes novels remain steady. The nuke novels knocked them off the list. Which means we're doing great. World War 1990: ANZACs spiked slightly on ANZAC Day. Don't tell us we don't know how to sell books. Ever.

Proper Segue...No. we've no plans to write a third Israel Strikes novel, even though Israel Strikes: War of the Red Sea ends with a cliffhanger. Unless...No. Just no. Or...? Summer sneak it? Let's take an afternoon and ask ourselves, if we could write any kind of third Israel Strikes novel we want, what would it be?

Sales of The New American Order have passed sales of The Great Nuclear War of 1975. Mojo rising. We've always loved that song. 

We're doing a talkie thing later. Wish us luck.