Saturday Updates

Good Saturday morning, Stroock's Books allies and associated powers. 

The weather is overcast, cold and windy, a very typical Yankee spring day. Yard stuff can wait till tomorrow. 

Yesterday evening we indulged an Arutro Fuente and a bottle of Cavalierre D'oro. [No services? A bad Jew-Ed] Never claimed to be a good Jew. Anyway, it'd been three weeks, a decent enough interval. Our fifth Arturo Fuente of the year. 

Cardio today, weights tomorrow, which will finish off a fine week at the gym. As it's midmonth, we'll reconsider our gym regimen. Weather permitting, we may replace cardio with 5-mile walks. But....we like the cardio. A dilemma. 

Hezbollah launched a missile attack on the Golan last night, and this morning we see Iran has seized an 'Israeli linked' ship outside the Arabian Gulf. A major missile/drone barrage is still expected. The Biden regime is warning Iran against an attack and is pledging to help defend Israel. We're not sure Iran's plan is working, as Israel's week began badly but ended quite well, both in Gaza and diplomatically. We await events. 

The things. 

Our Substack efforts are succeeding. We cross post this blog there and put up at least a dozen notes on the feed daily. Usually Israel is the subject. We're getting dozens of likes and interactions and at least a few new (free) subscribers and/or followers each day. We've never had so much interaction before. Not on Twitter, not on Gab, not on this blog. Never. We rather like it. Sometimes we make friends, sometimes we make enemies. Which is fine. 

We finished Stand Off at San Miguel and will read through it today, and then read through it again tomorrow. It's due the 19th.

We did some work on War Night this week. Once Stand Off at San Miguel is sent off, we'll finish editing the Titan II story, finish writing the Lexington story, and write another story. 

We also sent out War Night short stories for beta reading. Everyone seems pretty happy. We'd feel better if readers tore the stories apart. 

Anyway, here's what we have so far:

Nuclear Mom: a mother picks up her kids after the bomb drops.

Newsroom: a TV newsroom reports on Armageddon. 

Silo: A Titan II crew (Razorback-1) after it launches 'Piggy'.

Alberta Range: farmer watches the contrails, north, then south.

White House: Young WH staffers meditate on the situation.

Upcoming, nuclear artillery at Fulda Gap and....we still have no idea. 

Overall, War Night is 26,000 words. War Night needs to be many more words. If War Night sells, we'll write stories taking place after the events of The New American Order.