Change is coming

The God-Emperor Ascendant’s Fist prepares the legislative troops for the long march:

Vice President-elect Mike Pence told House Republicans in a closed-door meeting Thursday to be ready to move a lot of legislation next year.

“We’re going to move an agenda” focused on rebuilding the military and improving the economy, Pence told reporters after the meeting.

In his remarks to House Republicans, Pence talked about how he and the new administration wanted members to “buckle up,” and get ready for a speedy start on policy. He also solicited suggestions for candidates to fill administration posts.

“Donald Trump is a man of action and we’re counting on you,” Pence said, according to Ways and Means Chairman Kevin Brady. The Texas Republican said that Pence mentioned a tax overhaul and Obamacare, but didn’t get into specifics.

Pence, a former House member himself, returned to the U.S. Capitol Thursday to visit with House Republicans. He also met with top Democratic leaders in the House and Senate. Pence’s closed-door meeting with Speaker Paul Ryan and other House Republicans reflected his vital role helping President-elect Trump forge a relationship with Congress. His visit was squeezed in even as Pence is overseeing the building of a Trump administration, a transition effort seen as marked by infighting.

Pence didn’t mention Trump’s campaign promise to build a wall on the Mexican border, according to Representative Lou Barletta of Pennsylvania. But Pence said the transition is “going fantastic” and that Trump is methodically selecting his Cabinet positions, Barletta said.

Representative Chris Collins of New York, who was appointed by the transition team as its congressional liaison, said Pence also told lawmakers one of Trump’s top priorities was taking a deep dive through President Barack Obama’s executive orders. “We applaud that,” he said. “He will be reversing many of them.”

The Democrats are, without question, going to squeal like pigs being butchered and plead everything from “time-honored tradition” to racism, including appeals to the very customs they have blithely ignored in the very recent past. It is now readily apparent that this is not going to do them any good whatsoever, as the God-Emperor Ascendant has made it abundantly clear that he does not care in the slightest what the media or the SJW Left might have to say about him. Of course, I doubt he cares very much what we have to say either, except in that we are a more accurate guide to the current conceptual trends.

As I mentioned to Brian Greenberg on his show last night, Trump simply isn’t going to be impressed when they accuse his lieutenants and appointees of racism, hate crimes, crimethink, and small furry animal-molesting, because they have accused him of all the same things. My prediction: the conservative media will be licking his boots and hailing him as the next Reagan by October. The mainstream media will fall in line within a year after that, simply to avoid looking entirely out of touch.

Furthermore, everyone needs to relax about his appointees. This is not a traditional administration. It doesn’t necessarily matter what Mitt Romney or Rudy Giuliani or John Bolton think, because if they don’t do what Trump wants them to do, he’ll replace them without a moment’s hesitation and they all know it now. Look how swiftly Paul Ryan, the Speaker of the House, slapped down the idiot Republicans who wanted to bring back earmarks.

If Donald Trump was not the President-Elect, there is no way he would have done that, or succeeded so easily. I suspect that the neocons and everyone else who think they can use Trump the way they used the Bushes, the Clintons, and Obama, are about to discover that he is more capable of using them than they are of using him.

The Trump administration is looking more glorious by the day and the God-Emperor hasn’t even Ascended yet. Both Trump and Pence are showing themselves to be serious men of grim purpose and action, and while it is too soon to hail them on any accomplishments as yet, things are looking better than I had ever imagined.

UPDATE: The God-Emperor has chosen Jeff Sessions for Attorney-General. Great choice. Now set him loose to DRAIN THE SWAMP.

UPDATE: The Sessions (AG), Flynn (National Security Adviser) and Pompeo (CIA) announcements are to be formally announced later today. First Bannon, now this? The legions are practically shaking with anticipation.

Mr Dreher contemplates the red pill

When even a conservative as hopelessly, haplessly cucky as Rod Dreher is beginning to become indifferent to accusations of racism – although, he still never misses a chance to wag his finger and remind everyone that real racism is very bad – then you know we’re on the verge of a preference cascade. Dreher responds to an email from a reader named Andrew who actually has gone ahead and swallowed it at the American Conservative:

Dear Liberals, Democrats, progressives, leftists: Your use of the word “racist” doesn’t work anymore. We get it. You’re superior. You’re enlightened and we’re not. You care about diversity and we don’t. We only listen to dog whistles. We have given up trying to talk you out of your presumptions, or trying to earn your approval. We no longer consider it worth our while to reassure you that we’re not “that kind” of Republican.


But the fact is, we’re not as stupid as you think we are, and we see right through you. And if there’s one thing Trump has done, he’s given us some backbone to make our voices heard. Of course, that means “expressions of racism” will increase. (OMG!) And every child who behaves like a bully will be blamed on Trump. The fact is, we just won’t care about your freak-outs. Go ahead and caterwaul. You lost, and you deserved to lose.


I cast my vote for Trump reluctantly. Now, I couldn’t be prouder.

Thoughts?

I understand where Andrew is coming from in this e-mail, and I highlight it here to point out that a country in which people do not feel shame over racist thoughts, beliefs, and actions is a morally diminished country. I take Andrew’s point to mean that the left has accused him and people like him of racism for so many things, no matter how trivial, that the accusation doesn’t faze him anymore. I have been saying for some time now that if the alt-right grows in power and influence, it will be because ordinary people get tired of being bullied by these kinds of accusations, and choose to ally with people who might actually be bona fide racists, but who aren’t bothered by the attacks from the left.

I think Trump’s not giving a rip about political correctness was a big factor in his rise. If you’ve been reading me all year, you know that I’ve objected to his vulgarity and coarseness on many occasions. Trump lowers our discourse, and normalizes ways of talking in public that ought not be normalized. Having said that, it is undeniably true that the willingness of many on the left to demonize as bigots (racists, sexists, homophobes, Islamophobes, etc.) white people who don’t live up to strict progressive blasphemy codes has called forth contempt for the (necessary and important) taboo against racism itself.

Think of it like this: Prohibition encouraged contempt for the law. If you pass so many “laws” around normal discourse, saying to transgress them makes you an “outlaw” (= bigot), then you should not be surprised when people go full Uncle Chuckie, and cease caring.

And once people stop caring, it rapidly becomes apparent to everyone that the “necessary and important” taboo against racism is neither necessary or important. Remember, the pendulum never stops on a dime; just as the Left turned the taboo against homosexuality into a pseudo-disease, the rise of the Alt-Right will coincide with the taboo against racism transforming into something widely seen as being considerably more deleterious than “homophobia”.

It’s not your imagination

ESPN has been moving steadily leftward since it converged:

ESPN Public Editor Jim Brady on Election Eve surveyed complaints that the sports network had gone overboard with liberal pieties, frustrating long-time watchers by injecting politics onto the plahing field. He agreed with conservative complaints that ESPN had shifted leftward, though the company brass and at least one outspoken lefty personality didn’t see a problem: “One notion that virtually everyone I spoke to at ESPN dismisses is what some have perceived as unequal treatment of conservatives who make controversial statements vs. liberals who do the same.”

I used to LOVE ESPN and Sportscenter back in the glory days of Keith Olbermann and Dan Patrick. I haven’t even considered turning it on or even visiting the ESPN website for years.

But remember, SJW convergence is nothing that merits fighting. It’s a sign that there is a sizable opportunity to exploit.

Happy Birthday, Mike

Want to get Mike Cernovich a birthday present and thank him for the yeoman’s work he put in to ensure the Ascension of the God-Emperor Trump to the Cherry Blossom Throne?

  1. Buy a copy of his bestselling MAGA MINDSET in hardcover or in paperback.
  2. Give it to a friend or family member or teacher or professor to read. Tell them: this is why Donald Trump won the election.
  3. Tweet their reaction to @cernovich on Twitter or Gab.
It’s a gift that keeps on giving. In the meantime, Mike is gearing up to be the target of another hit piece. This is to be celebrated; the media only writes hit pieces about people who alarm them in some way.

הימין האלטרנטיבי, מהו

1.
הימין האלטרנטיבי הוא ימני במובן האמריקני והארופאי של המושג.  סוציאליסטים
אינם ימין אלטרנטיבי.  פרוגרסיביים אינם ימין אלטרנטיבי.  ליבראליים אינם
ימין אלטרנטיבי.  קומוניסטים, מרקסיסטים, מרקסיאנים, מרקסיסטים תרבותיים,
ונאו-שמרנים אינם ימין אלטרנטיבי.
2.
הימין
האלטרניבי מהווה אלטרנטיבה לתנועה השמרנית המיינסטרימית שבארה”ב, שלהלכה
מתומצתת בעשרת עקרונות השמרנות של ראסל קירק, אך למעשה סטתה עם הזמן לכיוון
הפרוגרסיביזם.  הוא גם מהווה אלטרנטיבה
לליברטריאניזם.
3.
הימין
האלטרנטיבי אינו גישה הגנתית בעלמא, אלא הוא דוחה על הסף את הרעיון של
תבוסה אצילה ועקרונית.  אדרבא, מדובר בפילוסופיה התקפית במלוא המובן,
הדוגלת במחשבה קדימה.  הימין האלטרנטיבי מאמין בנצחון
באמצעות התמדה, תוך מיזוג דעים עם המדע, המציאות, המסורת התרבותית, ולקחי
ההסטוריה.
4.
הימין
האלטרנטיבי מאמין כי התרבות המערבית היא הישג פסגה לאנושות, ותומך איפא
בשלושת יסודותיה: הנצרות, הלאומים האירופאיים, והמורשת היוונית-רומאית.
5.
הימין
האלטרנטיבי הוא לאומני באופן פומבי ומוצהר.  הוא תומך בכל סוגי הלאומנות
וכן בזכותם של כל עם ועם להתקיים באשר הוא באופן אחיד ובלתי מחולל מפלישה
והגירה של זרים.
6.
הימין האלטרנטיבי הוא אנטי-גלובליזציה.  הוא מתנגד לכל קבוצה הפועלת למען אידאלים ומטרות גלובליסטיים.
7.
הימין
האלטרנטיבי הוא אנטי-שוויונות. הוא דוחה על הסף את רעיון השוויונות מאותה
סיבה שהוא כופר באמונה בחדי קרן ושדונים, והיא שהשוויון הבין-אנושי לא היה
ולא נברא מעולם בשום צורה ואופן, לא מדעית,
לא חוקית, לא גשמית, לא שכלית, לא מינית, ולא רוחנית.
8.
הימין
האלטרנטיבי הוא סיאנטודי.  הוא מניח לעת עתה את נכונותן של מסקנות השוטף
של השיטה המדעית (סיאנטודיה), תוך הבנה כי א) מסקנות אלו עשויים להשתנות
בעתיד, ב) תופעת המדעיזם חשוף לשחיתות, וכי
ג) מה שנקרא הקונצנזוס המדעי כביכול, מבוסס לא על סיאנטודיה, אלא על
דמוקרטיה, ולפיכך היא לא מדעית הלכה למעשה.
9.
הימין האלטרנטיבי מאמין כי זהות > תרבות > פוליטיקה.
10.
הימין
האלטרנטיבי מתנגד לכל שלטון ומשלה של קבוצה אתנית כלשהי בידי קבוצה אחרת,
במיוחד בתוך ארצות המולדת של העמים הנשלטים.  הימין האלטרנטיבי מתנגד לכך
שקבוצה אתנית זרה בארץ תתפוס עמדה של השפעה
יתרה בחברה הילידית באמצעות נפוטיזם, שבטיות, או כל אמצעי אחר.
11.
הימין האלטרנטיבי מבין כי גיוון (תרבותי) + קרבה (פיזית) = מלחמה.
12.
לימין האלטרנטיבי לא אכפת מה אתם חושבים עליו.
13.
הימין
האלטרנטיבי דוחה את הסחר החופשי הבינלאומי ואת התנועה החופשית של בני אדם
הנצרכת לשם הסחר החופשי.  היתרונות של הסחר החופשי הלאומי אינן ראיה
ליתרונות הסחר החופשי הבינלאומי.
14.
הימין האלטרנטיבי מאמין כי יש להבטיח את קיומו של הגזע הלבן ולקיים עתיד לילדים לבנים.
15.
הימין
האלטרנטיבי אינו מאמין בעליונות הכללית של גזע, עם, אומה, או תת-גזע
כלשהו.  לכל גזע, עם, אומה, ותת-גזע אנושי נקודות חוזקה וחולשה משלו, ולו
הזכות הריבונית לשכון לבטח בקרב תרבותו הילידית,
אותה הוא מכיר ומבכר.

16.
הימין
האלטרנטיבי הוא פילוסופיה שמוקירה שלום בין עמי העולם השונים, והוא מתנגד
למלחמות שמטרתן להשליט את הערכים של עם אחד על עם אחר, וכמוהן נסיונות לאבד
עמים מסוימים באמצעות מלחמה, השמדת עם,
הגירה, או התבוללות גנטית.

The racial detente is over

This is an unusually astute article on an important reason that helps explain the rising appeal of the Alt-Right across America from the Federalist.

Privilege theory and the concept of systemic racism dealt the death blow to the détente. In embracing these theories, minorities and progressives broke their essential rule, which was to not run around calling everyone a racist. As these theories took hold, every white person became a racist who must confess that racism and actively make amends. Yet if the white woman who teaches gender studies at Barnard with the Ben Shahn drawings in her office is a racist, what chance do the rest of have?

Within the past few years, as privilege theory took hold, many whites began to think that no matter what they did they would be called racist, because, in fact, that was happening. Previously there were rules. They shifted at times, but if adhered to they largely protected one from the charge of racism. It’s like the Morrissey lyric: “is evil just something you are, or something you do.” Under the détente, racism was something you did; under privilege theory it is something you are.

That shift, from carefully directed accusations of racism for direct actions to more general charges of unconscious racism, took away the carrot for whites. Worse, it led to a defensiveness and feeling of victimization that make today’s whites in many ways much more tribal than they were 30 years ago. White people are constantly told to examine their whiteness, not to think of themselves as racially neutral. That they did, but the result was not introspection that led to reconciliation, it was a decision that white people have just as much right to think of themselves as a special interest group as anyone else….

Furthermore, the ever-present drumbeat from the Left that every conservative victory is the death throes of bad, old white people who are about to be swept away by waves of brown immigration is making many whites dig in. On a certain level, how can you blame them? They are explicitly being told that their values and way of life are under the sword. How do we expect them to react?

Well, they’re all just in the very early stages of finding out. But we will never negotiate with them again. We will never believe them again. The long, stupid, dishonest detente is over. Let a hundred meme-flowers blossom.

It’s not about you

I find it very annoying when someone decides it is an optimal use of my time to ask me to contemplate their personal situation and ascertain a) if their current political position can be characterized as Alt-Right, b) what variant of Alt-Right best describes their current political perspective, c) what the Alt-Right makes of their family situation, which inevitably involves some amount of interracial sex or adoption, d) if the Alt-Right has taken into account their family situation, which inevitably involves some amount of interracial sex or adoption, or e) if the Alt-Right is aware that its political theories violate the individual’s current theological perspective.

Allow me to direct your attention to Point 12 of the 16 Points.

12. The Alt-Right doesn’t care what you think of it.

Perhaps that needs to be revised. The Alt-Right doesn’t care about you. Or made more succinct: The Alt-Right doesn’t care.

I certainly don’t. These questions are not merely solipsistic and stupid, they are utterly beside the point. They all consist of category errors. This should be totally obvious, but as I am frequently informed that what I consider to be totally obvious is not always, in fact, the case, let me attempt to explain.

Let us say that instead of political philosophy, we are discussing political economy. Let’s say that instead of discussing the Alt-Right, we are discussing Keynesianism, I point out that it is in the interest of the economy that interest rates rise. How, then, would one regard an individual who asked the following questions?

  1. Can my current financial position be characterized as Keynesian?
  2. What variant of Keynesianism best describes my current financial position?
  3. What do Keynesians make of my financial situation, which inevitably involves some amount of debt or investment?
  4. Have Keynesians taken into account my financial situation, which inevitably involves some amount of debt or investment?
  5. Are Keynesians aware that their economic theories contradict my current theological perspective?

Now does the utter irrelevance of these questions make a little more sense? The truth or falsehood of Keynesianism does not depend on the amount one presently owes on ones’s student loan debt or credit card balance. Many people seem to be of the opinion that the legitimacy of the Alt-Right somehow depends upon whether it is good for them or not. This is, in three words, stupid, solipsistic, and erroneous.

Communism is either correct or incorrect. It doesn’t matter if it is bad for you or not. Free Trade theory is either correct or incorrect. It doesn’t matter if it is bad for you or not. And the Alt-Right is either a more correct political philosophy than Communism, Liberalism, Conservatism, or Libertarianism or it is not, regardless of whether you and your mudsharking daughter or rice-chasing son or your Filippino ex-wife or your gay Hispanic uncle or your adopted Haitian son or your adopted Korean daughter or your Jewish-Nigerian granddaughter or your Kenyan-Slovakian grandson are United States citizens or alien invaders from Mars.

Seriously, to preen and posture and pretend that your personal situation is even remotely relevant to whether diversity+proximity=war is just embarrassing. The great social forces are as indifferent to individual specimens of humanity as the Deists’ hands-off clockmaker god; as Tolstoy conclusively showed, not even Napoleon’s opinions were directly relevant to the outcome of a single battle. As a general rule, Europeans don’t want to live in Somalia, Beijing, Manila, Nairobi, or Jeddah, and the more your presence forces them to live in some facsimile of one of those places for any reason, the less they want you or anyone to do with you around them.

Now, I think there is a strong argument to be made for the Alt-Right from an individual perspective. As a mixed-race individual, I will benefit greatly from the continued existence of Western civilization. If that means I cannot live in certain Alt-White-governed areas one day, what of it? It is still of massive benefit to me, as the appearance of mobile phones, fertilizer, and modern medicine in the most hopelessly savage areas of Africa should suffice to prove.

The white nations of Europe are, collectively and historically speaking, humanity’s golden geese. It is to the long-term benefit of all Mankind to avoid killing them, or even adulterating them, through immigration, invasion, or assimilation.

Equality

Twitter demonstrates the SJW commitment to one of the five fundamental pillars of their social justice ideology.

I fucking hate white people and their inconsiderate asses for voting for Trump. Fuck you!
1:57 AM 9 Nov 2016

Twitter, in response to a complaint about the above tweet:

Thank you for reporting this issue to us. Our goal is to create a safe environment for everyone on Twitter to express themselves freely. We reviewed your report carefully and found that there was no violation of Twitter’s Rules regarding abusive behavior.

I fucking hate black people and their inconsiderate asses for voting for Clinton. Fuck you!
4:08 AM 16 Nov 2016

Twitter, in response to a complaint about the above tweet:

We’ve investigated and suspended the account you reported as it was found to be participating in abusive behavior.

Point 7: The Alt Right is anti-equalitarian. It rejects the idea of equality for the same reason it rejects the ideas of unicorns and leprechauns, noting that human equality does not exist in any observable scientific, legal, material, intellectual, sexual, or spiritual form.

Equality does not exist and it is very easy to prove that no one who claims equality to be a moral principle actually believes in it. Equality is nothing more than a rhetorical weapon utilized by the Left in order to win the moral level of war. Unless you reject it and refuse to kowtow before it, you are handing the Left power over you.

That is why Martin van Creveld described it as “the impossible quest” in his history of the concept.

Mitä Vaihtoehto-oikeisto on

Tarkoitus on tarjota Vaihtoehto-oikeistolle filosofinen perusta, jota voidaan sitten kehittää.

  1. Vaihtoehto-oikeisto on oikeistoa niin amerikkalaisessa kuin eurooppalaisessakin mielessä.  Sosialistit eivät ole vaihtoehto-oikeistoa.  Suvaitsevaisto ei ole Vaihtoehto-oikeistoa.  Liberaalit eivät ole Vaihtoehto-oikeistoa.  Kommunistit, marxistit, marxilaiset, kulttuurimädättäjät saati kokoomuslaiset eivät ole Vaihtoehto-oikeistoa.
  2. Vaihtoehto-oikeisto on VAIHTOEHTO USA:n valtavirran konservatiiviselle liikkeelle. Se nojaa nimellisesti Russell Kirkin 10 Conservative Principlesiin, mutta on jäänyt ajastaan jälkeen ja rappeutunut lähinnä suvaitsevaiston haaraksi. Vaihtoehto-oikeisto on vaihtoehto myös libertarismille.
  3. Vaihtoehto-oikeisto ei ole luonteeltaan puolustava, vaan hylkää pyrkimyksen jaloon ja periaatteelliseen tappioon.  Se suuntaa eteenpäin ja on filosofiana hyökkäävä sanan kaikissa merkityksissä.  Vaihtoehto-oikeisto uskoo voittoon sinnikkyyden kautta, pysytellen harmoniassa tieteen, todellisuuden, kulttuurisen perinteen ja historian opetusten kanssa.
  4. Vaihtoehto-oikeisto kokee länsimaisen sivilisaation olevan inhimillitsen saavutusten huippu ja tukee sen kolmea perustusta: kristinuskoa, eurooppalaisia kansoja ja kreikkalais-roomalaista perintöä.
  5. Vaihtoehto-oikeisto on avoimesti ja vakaumuksellisesti nationalistinen.  Se kannattaa kaikkea nationalismia ja kaikkien kansojen oikeutta olemassaoloon homogeenisinä, puhtaana maahantulijoiden tai -hyökkääjien vaikutuksesta.
  6. Vaihtoehto-oikeisto vastustaa globalismia.  Se vastustaa kaikkia ryhmittymiä, jotka työskentelevät globalististen ideoiden tai tavoitteiden puolesta.
  7. Vaihtoehto-oikeisto vastustaa tasa-arvoa.  Se hylkää tasa-arvon käsitteen samasta syystä kuin se hylkää yksisarviset ja tontutkin.  Tasa-arvoa ihmisten välillä ei ole olemassa missään havaittavassa tieteellisessä, laillisessa, materiaalisessa, intellektuaalissa, seksuaalisessa tai hengellisessä mielessä.
  8. Vaihtoehto-oikeisto on tieteellisesti suuntautunutta.  Se oletusarvoisesti hyväksyy tieteellisen metodin tuottamat johtopäätökset samaan aikaan ymmärtäen a) että nämä johtopäätökset saanevat tulevaisuudessa korjauksia, ja b) että niin kutsuttu tieteellinen konsensus on altis korruptiolle, ja c) että niin kutsuttu tieteellinen konsensus ei perustu tieteellisyyteen, vaan demokratiaan, ja on siten itsessään epätieteellistä.
  9. Vaihtoehto-oikeisto uskoo, että identiteetti > kulttuuri > politiikka.   
  10. Vaihtoehto-oikeisto vastustaa minkään kansan valtaa alkuperäiskansan yli, erityisesti hallittujen kansojen suvereeneissa kotimaissa. Vaihtoehto-oikeisto vastustaa minkä tahansa vierasperäisen etnisen ryhmän liiallista vaikutusvaltaa missään yhteiskunnassa nepotismin, tribalismin tai muun keinon kautta.
  11. Vaihtoehto-oikeisto ymmärtää, että erilaisuus + läheisyys = sota.
  12. Vaihtoehto-oikeistoa ei kiinnosta mitä mieltä siitä ollaan.
  13. Vaihtoehto-oikeisto vastustaa kansainvälistä vapaakauppaa ja vapaan kaupan edellyttämää ihmisten vapaata liikkuvuutta.  Kansansisäisen vapaakaupan edut eivät todista kansainvälisen vapaakaupan eduista.
  14. Vaihtoehto-oikeisto tunnustaa velvollisuutemme turvata valkoisen kansan olemassaolo ja valkoisten lasten tulevaisuus.
  15. Vaihtoehto-oikeisto ei usko minkään rodun, kansallisuuden, kansan tai alalajin yleispätevään ylemmyyteen.  Kullakin rodulla, kansallisuudella, kansalla ja alalajilla on vahvuutensa ja heikkoutensa, ja niillä on suvereeni oikeus elää häiriöttä luonnollisessa kulttuurissaan.
  16. Vaihtoehto-oikeisto on filosofia, joka arvostaa rauhaa kansojen välillä ja vastustaa sotimista arvojen levittämiseksi. Se vastustaa myös pyrkimyksiä tuhota kansakuntia sodan, kansanmurhan, maahanmuuton tai geneettisen sulauttamisen kautta.

Suomennos on nopeasti tehty eikä ehkä sellaisena kummoinen, mutta bona fide lukemalla kohdat ymmärtänee vaivatta.  Jos joku haluaa korjailla kieliasua lukukelpoisemmaksi, voi parannusehdotuksia postailla kommenttiosioon.

Writing sundries

So, here is the bad news, the good news, and a few other things.

  1. There is no way I’m going to complete A SEA OF SKULLS, get it edited, and get it out before Christmas. It’s just not happening. Even if I downed tools on everyone else’s books, ignored Infogalactic, and only did one blog post a day, it would be cutting it close. And I’m not going to do any of those things.
  2. However, as someone observed that a) what I already have written is on the order of four times longer than other novels we publish, b) it’s arguably better than ATOB, and c) people have been waiting a long time for it, I was inspired to concoct a plan that I thought might be of interest to Selenoth fans.

You may recall George Martin won the 1997 Hugo Award for Best Novella for “Blood of the Dragon”, which was actually the Danerys chapters from A GAME OF THRONES. You may also note that Amazon permits the updating of ebook files.

So, I said to our Production Editor, what if we release a version of A SEA OF SKULLS that is somewhere between 100k and 120k words, sell it for a reduced price of $5.99, then update the file in the spring to the full 295k-word version and let everyone update the file, after which we’ll raise the price to the full $7.99 we intend to charge for the whole book? That will give all the early readers a discount as well as the chance to return to Selenoth before the end of the year, even if the full experience of Book Two will have to wait. He said, “I would go for that.” So, we decided to see what you think of the idea.

Anyhow, I’m sorry to disappoint you all in this regard, but it is an option. If you think it’s a good idea, let us know in the comments. If you think it’s a stupid idea, please feel free do the same. Regardless, I will promise that the full version a) will be finished and b) no one who buys the initial version will have to pay any more to get the rest of it. I’m not Scalzi and Castalia House is not Tor; I’m not going to divide it into 10 30k parts, sell them all for a dollar, then package them together and resell the whole thing to you again. If you buy the initial version, you’ll get the whole thing. Eventually.

However, I do have some good news regarding Selenoth. First, we have an audiobook in the works. The English narrator is warming up on the smaller books, but he does intend to tackle both A THRONE OF BONES and A SEA OF SKULLS in 2017. Second, both hardcover and paperback versions of A THRONE OF BONES will be available in time for Christmas. They’ll be monsters, running around 915 pages, case laminate for the hardcover, and slightly taller than the Marcher Lord editions. We’ll also be using Garamond for the font.

In other news, I’m happy to say that my next non-fiction book will be about the Alt-Right and it will be out before summer. I’m working with a co-writer whom I will not presently identify, but let’s just say it is going to be every bit as hard-hitting and relevant and accurate as SJWAL and Cuckservative.

And finally, I can promise a new John C. Wright novel before Christmas, possibly even before the end of this month. This is Book Three of Moth & Cobweb.

You may now proceed with your best Vox RR Day jokes….