Friday, March 1, 2024

The First Post Leap Year Post of 2024

Good March 1st, Stroock's Books assembled readership. We're at the coffeeshop, where the satellite radio is tuned to a 2004 retro channel. Could be worse.  

It's that day again. Andrew Breitbart's is 12 years gone now. We were damn near inconsolable then. We're a little emotional about his death now.  We pulled a few stunts in our lifetime because of him. I am Andrew Breitbart. 

We held our judgement about the relief convoy incident in Gaza yesterday. We waited for facts, something we learned to do as a 19 year old freshman writing for the Wesley College Whetstone. Here's what we know this morning. The Gazans car swarmed the relief convoy, as Gazans are wont to do. It seems a few Gazans were killed by Israelis trying to disperse the crowd. CNN says many Gazans were run over by Egyptian truck drivers worried they were about to get the Reginald Denny treatment. Who can blame them for worrying? Some were trampled to death by their own kind. This incident is the most Gazan thing to ever happen. 

The preceding paragraph was written with considerable restraint. 

The Times of Israel reports (a couple of weeks ago): 'Nearly two-thirds of American Jews feel less secure in the US than they did a year ago, according to a new national survey...At 63 percent, the number of American Jews who say they feel less secure in the US jumped 22 percent from last year’s survey.' Well, yeah. And what the hell is wrong with the other 37 percent? We write this wearing our Israel hat. Yesterday someone at the gym said he loved out Israel T-shirt. Our synagogue is celebrating Shabot Across America tonight and will have armed security. 

We face a new month so it's time for the monthly sales show and tell. February's sales:

Here's KU reads:

The blue line is World War 1990: The Final Storm. The book has not quite peaked but will peak soon. From there sales will fall off about 20 percent per month, till TFS joins the backlist. The back list amounts to about half our sales and KU reads now. Which is why it pays to just keep writing. Note, these charts show the top 10 sellers, not all books. That top ten is books from the World War 1990 universe and the Great Nuclear War of 1975 universe. Which is why it also pays to keep writing in those universes. 

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