{"id":54473,"date":"2015-07-24T10:59:31","date_gmt":"2015-07-24T15:59:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=54473"},"modified":"2015-07-24T10:59:31","modified_gmt":"2015-07-24T15:59:31","slug":"a-dilemma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=54473","title":{"rendered":"A Dilemma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the sales of my first book,\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Trulbert-Comic-Novella-About-World-ebook\/dp\/B00YL2UBLQ\">Trulbert<\/a>!,\u00a0<\/em>continue to outpace my meager expectations, the question &#8220;what next&#8221; is occupying more and more of my time.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been thinking about compiling my\u00a0<em>Twenty Years Ago Today\u00a0<\/em>series into an e-book, for all the people who&#8217;ve asked me about it over the past decade (and there have been quite a few). \u00a0I am strongly thinking about putting that out this September, in time for the tenth anniversary of the series.<\/p>\n<p>But in terms of original books, as opposed to &#8220;Hewitts&#8221; (books compiled from blog posts)?<\/p>\n<p>There are a few contenders:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;An Accidental Conservative&#8221;: \u00a0how a guy who by all rights should have been a liberal, became a conservative. \u00a0Then a libertarian. \u00a0Then a libertarian-conservative again. \u00a0And why. \u00a0 Pros: \u00a0that book is largely also already written. \u00a0Cons: \u00a0I have to dig through a little over 12,000 blog posts to assemble it.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Josef Sklrbczsz, American&#8221;: \u00a0The story of a young man from an Eastern European goat-town whose entire knowledge of America comes from the mass media. \u00a0Then, he comes to America.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Purple Sunset&#8221;: \u00a0An expansion of my &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?page_id=12\">Secession Diaries<\/a>&#8221; stories, from ten years ago. \u00a0Pros: \u00a0It&#8217;d be a fun piece to write. \u00a0Cons: \u00a0What? \u00a0Me, write a book of absurdist speculative political fiction?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The\u00a0<em>Twenty Years Ago\u00a0<\/em>one is kind of a no-brainer.<\/p>\n<p>Beyond that? \u00a0The sky is the limit&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the sales of my first book,\u00a0Trulbert!,\u00a0continue to outpace my meager expectations, the question &#8220;what next&#8221; is occupying more and more of my time. I&#8217;ve been thinking about compiling my\u00a0Twenty Years Ago Today\u00a0series into an e-book, for all the people who&#8217;ve asked me about it over the past decade (and there have been quite a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,6],"tags":[302],"class_list":["post-54473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geekery","category-mitch","tag-trulbert"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54473"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54474,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54473\/revisions\/54474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}