Coming And Going For The Week Ending 12/10/2022

It being the Christmas season, new releases are getting thin on the ground as people take the rest of the year off.

• CTL ALT REVOLT: Talking Tolkien on the podcast.
• 365 Infantry: If you missed last Sunday's big burst of posting, now's the time to catch up.
• Moorcock: The Citadel of Forgotten Myths, on CD as well as in Kindle and Hardcover at Amazon.

One unexpected present was the release of the 2022 #20BooksTo50K video playlist. Embedded below.

It's months after the fact, so the information will be dated to a degree, yet I would ask that you watch it anyway. This is as close to an annual report on the business as it gets these days, coupled with some sound business and craft instruction for those still on the newer side of things. Many present are veteran indie authors and publishers, who have been there since the space became viable, and so remember when it was OldPub or nothing.

The caveat is that, like indie Western film and TV, it presumes Western OldPub as the only other model; there is little awareness, nevermind comprehension, of how the business works in the East or anywhere else. If you're not working within the Western paradigm of business, #20Books will have lesser utility for you.

This is also where I must complain that "BookTube" is almost worthless. It is filled with Death Cultists and incompetents (but I repeat myself) tearing at greater men of the past and foreign talent of the present that contradict and defy the (Un)Holy Narrative.

I would like to remind such people screeching about "Muh Representation!" that one of the properties they are trying so hard to subvert--Warhammer--has represented them from the start. The Ruinous Powers of Chaos need worshippers to carry out their will, and the Death Cult--a peculiar blend of Nurgle and Slannesh--does so with glee. Furthermore, the specific pattern of Convergence fits the Genestealer Cult motif perfectly. No wonder they hate it so much.

And if you need to relax, David Stewart's streams are always a comfy time.