It has come to this...
You see, I wrote a political satire novella for my genre
series. I wrote it in 2013, and polished it up nicely last year,
ready for a launch for the holidays - I even listed it as published
in a collection of short stories I wrote.
The nabobs at Go Figure Reads dragged their heels
(drugged the heels? drugs that heal? eels on drugs?)
and now, close
to a year later, it's still not anywhere near publication.
The thing about political satire is that it's a lot like
guacamole; it doesn't get better when it sits around. The
politicians have been doing their utmost to satirize themselves over
the last year, and a few of my key figures have become less relevant.
I blame congress.
(That's always a safe bet.)
The
upshot is that the earning prospect for stale satire is no longer
worth the eleven dollars and twenty-three cents that Go Figure Reads
spends prepping a story for e-book.
Poop!
I've come to two conclusions.
One: I'm staying out of politics. They not only rot,
but their stories rot, and that just... rots!
Two: I'm far too lazy to let all the work I put in this
story languish on the Island of misfit novellas, so... I'm going to
bore you with it. This should effectively cut my loyal readership
down to Uncle Humbolt, who has nothing else to do with his time for
the remainder of his sentence in the home for the criminally tedious.
But, in an effort to inconvenience one or two other
readers, I will alternate between the serialization of my irrelevant
novella, and my ordinary irrelevancies.
What does that mean?
I'm not sure, but I think it means you'll find excerpts
from the satire on Fridays and on Tuesdays you'll see stuff about
penguins wearing party hats and crap like that.
So, starting on Friday and for several
tedious Fridays to come, look for a complete unproofed (but not
unpoopie) serialization of... Dirk
Destroyer's Less Destructive Brother, Book Three in Cataclismically
Unprofitable Genre Series - The Political Satire!
Oh, and sorry in advance.
As a matter of fact, I feel so bad about
it, that I'll make the first two books in the series Trouble
in Taos Trouble inTaos, and
Volition man Volition Man
free for e-book download on Amazon September 30th and October 1rst.
What do you mean that makes it worse?
And now for a completely unrelated video.
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