I just set this book up for pre-sale and it’s really moving! This is great, and pre-sales are always a strong indicator of success. There are a lot of veterans of the wars out there who want their story told on their own terms. And that’s exactly what I want to facilitate. This is quite exciting.

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The South Carolina Republican primary is today. Newt had a big day at the debates the other night. I saw that and it was something wonderful to see him attack the media. The reporter John King is going to be branded for all time now, I wonder if he realizes that yet. The media naturally rallied around him. But that was a watershed moment, and that will be verified in a few hours.

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Click the image to read a short essay in this issue of Audience Magazine about my upcoming memoir, Second Row. As you can see from the layout, this issue of awesome!!—and many thanks to Matt Ward in Australia for editing this issue. I will have no problems marketing it. And Matt’s press is publishing my memoir about rugby; fittingly, he’s an Australian publisher. I’ll tell you a little secret. I deal with all of these writers—so does Matt—but we started this empire over a decade ago because we are both writers. All of my writers look at me as “the publisher”. Heck, I am really a playwright. And I do my work as a small businessman to grow this press; but all of these books are here to further my career as a writer, hahahahha! Oh, I’m not Random House, booo hooo! My point is, Matt and I have created a vast apparatus and we now how the power to do whatever we want with it! And we’re just getting started. It’s my press, and it’s going to serve my wishes! Capitalism, baby! And, guess what?—if there’s ever any problem with that, I’ll flip the whole operation Down Under in 3 shakes of a lamb’s tail, Haus.

I want: My money back.

Pretty please: With sugar on top.

Well, this is pleasant news, indeed. I go to check World Audience’s book sales and it’s always very good buy my own books are like all the rest: an initial surge and then sales slow. But now there is a sudden spike. I have some old friends contacting me out of the blue too, who I wrote about in the book. There is even a review at Amazon. It’s just one thing after another, lately.

I am working with a composer who was in my previous production of Moctezuma, and he’s an arranger with a studio so we can produce a fully written score with a CD. There are co-producers, a theater, a market in place, and even a movie is rapidly becoming a reality. Hollywood can’t copy me—no one can write this story, many have already tried and failed. Go ahead, Hollywood, you can do it! The train has left the station!!

It is currently colder than a witch’s teat-tee.

I’m telling you, this is so cool. The people involved in this book are incredible. It is going to be off the hook. I’ve love the name too, I had not really heard it before, but that is what this generation of vets is calling both wars. This is where I am glad to be a war vet myself and have an outlet as a publisher to make this book happen. In fact, I have published a few books now—and one play—that are pro-soldier. I may be the only publisher around who’s doing this; especially what these books are—not for the faint of heart; but then so isn’t war. Word is starting to get around for real. I am very proud of that, I must say.