Coming And Going For The Week Ending 12/30/2023

New Releases:

• J.N. Chaney (Author), Rick Partlow (Author): Legacy of Empire (Taken to the Stars Book 4, Amazon)
• J.D. Cowan: Two Adventures Across Eternity (Amazon, Lulu)
• Antelope Hill Publishing: Whitey on the Moon by Paul Kersey (site), Black Mecca Down by Paul Kersey (site)

Notable Postings:

• David V. Stewart: "Writestream 12: The Self-Pub Money Pit" (YouTube)
• Brian Niemeier: "How to Prove God and Find Him" (Substack)

Commentary:

End of year, so it's going to be light on the entries this week. Have yourself a happy New Year, and I'll see you all in 2024.

Coming And Going For The Week Ending 12/23/2023

New Releases:

• DVX Publishing: The Anabasis of Alexander by Arrian of Nicomedia w/ translation by Edward J Chinnock (Amazon)

Notable Postings:

• 365 Infantry: "VII. Day of the Dragonfly" (Substack) is the first is a series. The rest: Two, Three, Four, Five; "Those Sterling Hours" (Substack)
• Alexander Hellene: "Deus Block!" (Substack), "Partyboy Finally Does Something Useful for Once in His Life" (Substack)
• Brian Niemeier: "In Defense of December 25th" (Substack), "Media Slanders Francis With Fake News" (Substack)
• Imperium Press: "How to Achieve Based AI" (Substack)
• Macross II: Lovers Again Alus Edition (Kickstarter)
• David V. Stewart: "Mark Dawson: Plagiarist, or shrewd businessman?" (Substack)

Special Announcement:

My own Substack newsletter--Walker's Lakeside Clubhouse--is now live. You can subscribe to it here.

What this means for this blog, the Retreat, and Empire is that they are going to shift. The Substack account will be where the more long-form writing will go, along with anything else of a more polished and professional manner.

At launch, I am aiming at a weekly release schedule aiming for weekends. We'll see how that goes from there.

Coming And Going For The Week Ending 12/16/2023

New Releases:

• David J. West: Bury Me Not : on the Loathsome Prairie (Amazon)
• Cirsova's Winter 2023 issue is out now. Links in the announcing Tweet.
• Rick Partlow: Collateral Effects (Amazon)
• Vox Day: A Sea of Skulls (complete edition, Arkhaven) Details here.

Notable Postings:

• David V. Stewart: "Writestream 10: Prose" (YouTube), "Quiet Quitting (and Teaching) - workers waking up from attachment issues" (YouTube), "Antichrist Superstar - Retro Review" (Substack)
• Alexander Hellene: "Genre Monster: Godzilla Minus One (2023)" (Substack)
• J.D. Cowan: "End of the Publishing Age" (Substack)
• 365 Infantry: "RED LIGHT BYTES: The #7 Special" (Substack), "True Duel" (Substack)

Happenings:

• Brian Niemeier has opened a Kairos mirror on Substack.
• Standard Books, a place for DRM-free Public Domain ebooks, can be found here. Lots of classics to be found therein, including some by the authors below, with more added in due time.

Seasonal Recommendations:

• Edmond Hamilton: The Star Kings (Amazon)
• E.E. Smith: The Skylark series, The Lensman series.
• Howard Pyle: Men of Iron (Amazon), The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood (Amazon)
• Shigeru Kayama w/ translations by Jeffrey Angles: Godzilla and Godzilla Raids Again (Amazon, 2-in-1)
• Yoshiki Tanaka w/ translations by Daniel Huddleston: Legend of the Galactic Heroes light novel series (Amazon)
• Imperium Press: The Indo-European Household (Amazon), The Ancient City (Amazon), Studies in Reaction (a three book series, Amazon)
• DVX Publishing Company: The Franco-German War of 1870-71 by Gen. Helmuth von Motlke w/ translations by Archibald Forbes (Amazon)
• Moncreiffe Press: Anabasis: The March of the Ten Thousand (Annotated) by Xenophon w/ translations by Henry Graham Dakyns (Amazon)
• Del Rey: Conan the Barbarian (three book series, no pastiches allowed) (Amazon), El Borak and Other Desert Adventures (Amazon), The Savage Tales of Solomon Kane (Amazon), Kull: Exile of Atlantis (Amazon), Bran Mak Morn: The Last King (Amazon), and Sword Woman and Other Historical Adventures (Amazon)- all by Robert E. Howard and no one else.
• J.D. Cowan: The Last Fanatics (Amazon)

Final Notes:

You have about one week before Christmas, so get in any orders at Amazon or wherever in now to guarantee that they'll arrive in time.

And if you appreciate what I've done here this year, and would like to show it, I have relevant Wish Lists at Amazon: Fiction, History, Art Books.

It's been a good year all around for the indie scene as OldPub's collapse accelerates and foreign-origin media moves in to fill the void; younger people are reading, just not OldPub trash, and digital is ascendant for that reason- webnovels are a thing.

Watch this space for an imminent announcement of my own next week.

Coming And Going For The Week Ending 12/9/2023

New Releases:

• Michael Moorcock & Mark Hodder: Sexton Blake: Caribbean Crisis & Voodoo Island (A Sexton Blake Mystery) (Amazon)
• Vauban Books: Enemy of the Disaster: Selected Political Writings of Renaud Camus (Amazon, coming soon)
• Edward Dutton: The Naked Classroom: The Evolutionary Psychology of Your Time at School (Amazon)

Notable Postings:

• Alexander Hellene: "Something That No One Wants Any Part Of" (Substack)
• Robert Kroese is launching the Based SF&F Book Club next month. Landing page is here.
• Brian Niemeier: "How to Defeat the Death Cult and Win the Culture War with Novelist Brian Niemeier" (YouTube), "Defeating the Death Cult" (blog), and a New Writers Need To Read thread on Twitter.
• David V. Stewart: "Writestream: Dialogue" (YouTube)
• John A. Douglas: "End of Year Update" (YouTube)
• 365 Infantry: "ed Light Bytes: 12-8-2023" (Substack)
• Imperium Press: "Folkish or Die" (Substack)
• Morgoth's Review: "A Brief Guide To Content Creation" (Substack)
• S2 Underground: "S2 Book Club: 33 Strategies of War" (YouTube)
• Joshua Lisec on what writers need to know to win. (Twitter)

Happenings:

• Brian Niemeier compleded his campaign for The Burned Book with massive success.
• Raw Egg Nationalist announced a fiction contest.
• Jon Del Arroz launched Fandom Pulse. Vox Day explains why this happened.
• Antelope Hill Publishing announced their 2024 slate.

Coming And Going For The Week Ending 12/2/2023

New Releases:

• Antelope Hill: Black Mecca Down by Paul Kersey (site), Whitey on the Moon by Paul Kersey (site), Man’s World Annual – 2023 (site)
• Hirohiko Araki: JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Part 6--Stone Ocean, Vol. 1 (Amazon)
• Imperium Press: Genghis Khan by Harold Lamb (site), Sex and Culture by J. D. Unwin (site)
• Rick Partlow: Collateral Effects (Drop Trooper Book 14) (Amazon), Infiltration: A Military Sci-Fi Series (Amazon)
• The Michael Moorcock Library: Multiverse Vol. 1 (Amazon)
• Karl K. Gallagher: Trouble In My Day (Amazon)

Notable Postings:

• David V. Stewart: "The Writestream 8: The Writing Process" (YouTube)
• Brian Niemeier: "Sympathy For The Devil...Or Not" (Twitter, Twitter)
• Alexander Hellene: "Carry On You" (Substack), "Can Women Have Friends?" (Substack)
• 365 Infantry: "Confessions of a White Coat" (Substack), "Red Light Bytes: 12-1-2023" (Substack)