Saturday Updates

Sales of World War 1990: Norway remain stubbornly strong. As of this writing Norway is ranked 25th in its Amazon category with 27 ratings averaging 4.4 stars. A note on Norway's Amazon page says, '250+ bought or read in past month'.* That's 250 + sales since 28 June, actually, with emphasis on the +. This number is accurate. The public has spoken and to no one's surprise, the public likes what it reads. We'll recoup costs by the end of the month. 

Norway is dragging up sales of other novels in the World War 1990 series. One of the reasons World War 1990 is written with a main chronological narrative supplemented by a secondary narrative of standalone novels like Nederland, The Weser, and Norway, is so potential customers can read one novel without needing to read or committing to read the other nine. Exit question, is World War 1990: Norway a standalone novel or part of the main narrative?

So there it is. In six months we released World War 1990: The Final Storm, and World War 1990: Norway. One novel took years to write, one novel took about a year to write. In between we got Standoff at San Miguel published.  Reminder, we are among the best there is at what we do. 

The Things.

The rough draft of Ambush at Lingayen Gulf will be completed this weekend. We are increasingly pleased. We are rolling, like an M3 Stuart up Route-3 on the Lingayen Gulf shore. We'll spend the next week editing and, voila, another brilliant short story by William T. Stroock. Ambush at Lingayen Gulf is 7,000 words. 

We started writing the Alexander Haig in a NATO bunker story in War Night, and other Stories of the Great Nuclear War of 1975. We are going slow, as we really have no idea what a NATO command bunker would have looked like in 1975. Can't find a damn thing about it. This may be one of those, 'just make it up' stories. War Night and other Stories of the Great Nuclear War of 1975 is 33,000 words.

...We finished all but one scene in the botched SAS raid in World War 1990: Thatcher's War. The final scene is a bunch of IRA/Sinn Fein types meeting in the aftermath. This will introduce necessary characters and drive the plot to the next chapter. The writing is proceeding slowly as is the research. Ireland in the 70's and 80's is a depressing place. We still don't understand the relationship between the Irish government, the IRA, and Sinn Fein. Should the Sinn Fein head be on the phone with the IRA head? We've much to learn. World War 1990:Thatcher's War is 16,000 words. 

The womenfolk return tomorrow. 

 *We don't love that Amazon publishes raw sales data like that, but there it is. Might as well use it.