I rewrote a nonfiction book I posted here a few months ago called Workers Rise Up and then submitted it for self-publishing on amazon. That was two and a half days ago. Usually they only take a few hours to approve your books when you send them in. The maximum is three days. This probably means that they don't like the book for some reason. The last time this happened was a few years ago when I wrote this terrible anti-Jordan Peterson book called 13 Rules For Death which they rejected because it just looked and sounded too similar to 12 Rules For Life. I'm worried amazon isn't going to let me publish this book because they'll think I'm trying to incite a riot or something (which I am actually trying to do heheh). I'm only publishing it there because I want to have something on paper I can give workers who might have no more than a high school education. If amazon rejects it I'll have to find a different self-publishing company to send it to! And I also blew $30 to have someone on fiverr design a kind of okay cover for it too. Regardless of what happens I'll post an updated dropbox link here at some point if anyone wants to read it.

I'm also so so so fucking close to finishing my sci-fi trilogy completely. The first two books are completely edited and finished. The third is in second draft form. I just have to read 250 more motherfucking pages aloud to myself and then it's off to the editor at this small independent publisher which by some miracle accepted my query letter a long ass time ago. Then after a few days she'll send me her edits, 95% of which are just, like, insert a comma here, take a comma away there. Then I check her edits, send the motherfucker back, and that's it, I'm done. They publish it...and nobody reads it lol.

I'm thinking the next project is going to be a novel about a balkanized USA. What's super annoying though is that I actually have to write the book before I start shopping it around. So basically it's going to be months of me working my ass off without really knowing for sure if anyone is going to agree to take it. If they don't, I'll try self-publishing on amazon, and it'll just basically vanish into the void there. Such is the writer's life.

I've also been listening to this song on repeat for the last couple of days to kind of put me in a trance while I work. Still not tired of it. Touareg music / more traditional desert blues is really good for that I find:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuIvEAn76t0