Showing posts with label Sea Lion Press. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sea Lion Press. Show all posts

Saturday, May 9, 2020

Saturday Updates

And away we go. 

World War 1990: Battle of the Three Seas has finally taken off. It's the light blue. That amounts to a couple dozen kindle sales and several thousand KDP page reads a day. Interestingly it's hovering in the mid-40's ranking wise and refuses to climb. We think this is becuase Sea Lion Press has three or four new books out. They really like to flood the market. This is not an issue, the raw numbers are good and reading isn't a zero-sum game. If someone has to choose a Sea Lion Press book over a William Stroock book, it just means they'll get to William Stroock a little later. The great thing about a new book is it boosts the sales numbers of all the other books. At this point you just put your feet up and count the money.

Attack of the 50 Foot Communist is almost done. It'll be done next week. This clears the way for us to think about a second short story. To Defend the Earth? We dunno. So far, no ju-ju.

The Great Nuclear War of 1975 is 33,000 words. We got bogged down describing the new canal being built above New Orleans, to reopen the Mississippi. This week, The Battle of Prudhoe Bay.

From there it's really a matter of, ok, we've gotten through the winter, we're getting about half the oil we need (the Rockefeller Administration has reestablished trade with Saudi Arabia), what next?

World War 1990: Nederlandse has been reviewed by US Army Guy, US Navy Guy, Italian Guy, Canadian Guy, Dutch Guy. Next week Nederlandse gets it's final rough read before we send it off to Debbie. Maps and cover are already in production. As MC Hammer once said, let's turn this mother out.

Monday, December 9, 2019

Pershing et al

We're working on a Pershing short story for an alternate history compilation about the Great War. Ours is about the planned AEF offensive for 14 November, 1918. 

This is a character study about Pershing and his generals, Liggett, Bullard, Dickman, each commanding an army, and also Harbord, who commanded the Service of Supply.

The offensive is recounted from the POV of Colonel Walker, a fictional aide-de-camp to Pershing. We'll discuss the details of the offensive from on high, almost like a history. 

Two thousand words, so far.

Wednesday, November 27, 2019

December Short Story Problem...

...Solved

Sea Lion Press is doing an alternate Great War anthology and is interested in a contribution from us. They seem intrigued by The Austrian Painter, which makes sense.

December 31 is the soft deadline, which is no problem.

Now, what to write? heh....We'll work that out on the treadmill this morning.