[Tijeras_Slim]

Thanks for all you’ve done over the years. There’s apparently no age limit on historians... I’m currently reading “The Wright Brothers” by David McCullough...fascinating stuff.

[Yo-Yo]

Congratulations on the movie treatment, and best of luck on the Gipper bio.

[OddLane]

Congratulations, Larry!

Best of luck on the latest project.

-good times, G.

[lulu16]

Hi Larry, I brought the group together when your movie Rock the (Berlin) Wall came to Tucson. I’m glad your bringing your gig to Arizona. Welcome.

[JRandomFreeper]

There is nothing to be ashamed of in writing. Just do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.

/johnny

[cripplecreek]

Sometimes ya just gotta let the well recharge.

[Gen.Blather]

That’s like trying to quit being Caucasian. You either are or you aren’t.

http://amzn.to/1cEFvmL

[perfect_rovian_storm]

I couldn’t see where to send friend request, but I did follow you. :-)

[Travis McGee]

Larry, here is my mid-course advice. I have had some challenges which precluded me finishing my 5th novel, but in the interim, I wrote some (at least to me!) significant short stories and essays. Now, here is where you might not see it the same way, but I have this theory that on some levels, it doesn't matter where you first publish your short works (NRO vs Joe's Blog). Instead, mostly what counts is a very unique and easily searchable title, and how you utilize social media to spread it around.

For an example, search around and find out how many people have read (or websites have reblogged) some of my short stuff like "When the Music Stop: How America's Cities May Explode In Violence." It's pretty significant. That was my first piece which traveled from web to print. (Maybe 10K words if memory serves?) Or scope around my short story, "Alas, Brave New Babylon." What counts is total readers, not the gold-plated first source website.

Frankly, I don't much care where a piece first appears. That is, IMHO, part of a hard-wired legacy dinosaur publishing mindset. Trying for the famous website is just working hard to shine your own light on somebody else's "famous name brand." Why boost them with your original content? Who give a flip? In 2015, nobody remembers where they read a story first. Just the title and the content.

Just kick some short stuff out there, and see what happens. Original clicks on your new short stuff will lead to more book sales on your old stuff, while you finish your next opus magnus. Even long excerpts of your future paid content. You don't lose anything by giving away big chunks of content. It all comes back to you in Kindle sales of old content, and it warms up your audience for your future books. That is at least a consolation prize! Just my dos centavos.

Click the pic to the full-text Free Republic thread.

[TBP]

Not possible. It gets in the bloodstream.

[TexasBarak]

I’ve read and enjoyed “Patriot’s History” and “Seven Events”. I think it’s time to read them again, and hand them to my kid, who is fourteen (and tells me that she wants to be a professional author). Thank you for writing them!

[outofsalt]

Congratulations!

FRiend requests are something I can get behind but that other site is not for me.

How might a freeper procure an autographed copy of Patriots History? I’d like to purchase one for my son and one for his High School AP Euro teacher as a gift.

[Secret Agent Man]

I like Reagan, but I sure wish some time would be spent on his naivety concerning granting big pharma immunity from liability for vaccines back in 1986, and also with his budget deals with the democrats that never kept their spending promises. That should have been included in the legislation he was signing so it was law and they would have been unable to reverse it. Because even if they passed a separate law later trying to get rid of it, Reagan would have vetoed it, and they wouldn’t have had 2/3 of the house and senate to override.

[SunkenCiv]

Sounds great Larry. Everyone who retires though says something to the effect that, they don’t know when they used to find time to work. More time probably means more writing in your future.