Sunday, April 5, 2026

Will's Good Idea for the Week of 4/5/26...

...and beyond!

Good morning, Stroock's Books reader(s), wherever you are. And Happy Easter to our Christian friends, except the C of E types. Reminder, my fellow Hebrews: Christ is King is a lot better than Allah Akbar. 

Yesterday we had our first real spring day here at home, which was nice. 

We got our downed pilot back. Halleluiah. Sounds like a remarkable rescue operation. On this morning it seems the US military is the most remarkable organization on the planet. 

DOGE Report. 

So...we made World War 1990: Ireland available on Kindle Select and now it's climbing back up the Amazon alternate history rankings, #74 as of this morning. Right now, we feel like an evil genius.

We did a lot of good work on the nuke short story we wanted to finish yesterday. Alas we didn't finish it. Tentative title for the 5th nuke novel: The Fourth Day. What do we think? The 5th nuke novel is 26,000 words. 

We looked at World War 1990: The Managua Campaign for the first time in six weeks. We read through two post-Battle of Los Banos chapters, the reaction and the what are we going to do chapters. They needed work and need work but are overall fine. World War 1990: The Managua Campaign is 31,000 words. 

Which brings us to Will's Good Idea for the Week of 4/5/26: Tactical...we're working on Managua this month, Thatcher's War be damned. We'll also be finishing the four unfinished nuke novel short stories. 

Moving on to Will's Good Idea for the Week of 4/5/26: Strategic....walking the Streets of Key West, we realized we're getting older, have a lot of good ideas, and want to get on with them. To that end, we're thinking we'd like to wrap up the World War 1990 series by the time we turn 55. That's two and a half years from now, two and a quarter, really. What's left? Esercito Italiano, Saddam's War, Election '92. The Grognard really wants us to write Battle of the GIUK Gap. But at the moment we've no desire to fall back into World War III. Memorial Day is seven weeks away. That's when we'll see where we stand for writing a Summer Sneak In novel....so maybe. 

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