Jihad Bubba Ad Completed-Results
The Equus ad has finished running. Compared to FB, X has been efficient, reaching 540,000 people for only $300, or more precisely 540,000 ‘impressions’. That’s a bargain anywhere. I won’t know for a while how many copies of JIHAD BUBBA were actually sold by Amazon, if any, but the website quadrupled traffic for several days.
More people are now aware (hopefully) that Wokeness can be mocked via sci-fi satire, which was my main purpose. I hoped to help correct the notion that serious messages can’t be conveyed with humor, n that no seasoned writers out there are writing books that mock the PC Woke Cult. JIHAD BUBBA mocks diversity, Bidenomics, Zimbabwe, George Floyd, PC police, gays, gun control, pronouns, n the legions of purple-haired teenage girls who run today’s U.S., either literally teenage, or ostensibly grown women but who still have little girl minds.
If you like JIHAD BUBBA, you might want to read my previous 3 books that mock Wokeness. Here are their titles below, all described on this site, n which can be purchased on Amazon. Equus is not (yet) banned by Amazon, tho Equus has been banned by a number of smaller websites.
Adventures of Maggie, the Radiated Lesbian Nun:
Book 1: Judge Crater Takes a Powder
Book 2: Cross-Dressers From Pluto
Book 3: The Warriors
I will be running more book ads soon. I maintain hope that there are at least a few literates lurking among the hordes of meme-drooling Xers who have difficulty reading 3-syllable words.
Running an X ad for Jihad Bubba
This is the first ad I have run with X.
“Hardworking Bubba Gray is obsolete in a future U.S. of Rainbowstan where ‘pre-citizens’ surge the borders, purple-haired teens make all the rules, and smart-alec robots crash their taxis—till one day he goes full ‘jihad’, with hilarious results.”
I had to change my usual description of the book from ‘with unpredictable consequences’ to ‘hilarious results’ in an attempt to avoid the algorithm / moderators. The issue is that any title that has ‘JIHAD’ in it is automatically suspect with every publisher n platform. I consider myself fortunate that XTwit has NOT rejected Jihad Bubba or Equus. So far, at least! Most places refuse outright to accept JIHAD in any book title. See my posts here on EquusPublishing on how Arktos tried to publish Jihad Bubba but was deplatformed by Ingram, which panicked Arktos into canceling me the author to halt the damage–yes, Arktos cancels authors for commercial reasons just like any other publisher eyeing its bottom line! And Arktos was the second publisher. The first wanted to publish JB, but declined due, as always, to the dangerous word ‘JIHAD’ in the title. No one wants their offices firebombed by mad mullahs, including both Arktos n Ingram. (Yours Truly doesn’t have an office so I’m not particularly concerned.)
X ads IMO are much cheaper per impression than FB ads. In fact, I would say the ratio is about 100 to 1. IOW, you get a much larger exposure than you would if you ran your ad with FB. I also found that one can select the target audience more carefully with X. The only genuine issue I see with running an ad for a book on XTwit is that most X members are functionally illiterate. Even tho I wrote JB at about a 7th grade level, it’s my experience that few Americans, n fewer X members, can actually read it. That’s why only visual memes work on X n textual snippets accomplish nothing.
The response for JB has actually been rather good, considering the small price I am paying of $100 per day for 200,000 impressions daily. That’s a bargain anywhere. I don’t know if any books are actually selling (remember XTwits can’t read) but Equus Publishing is definitely being noticed by the right crowd, speaking politically that is since I know I’ll never sell a book to an illiterate.
More collectibles posted
Regarding the many science fiction writers that I have in my collection of hardbacks and paperbacks, I have several of their works that are rare editions. The writers include Edgar Rice Burroughs, H.P. Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard, and many more. See my latest postings of rare books below. My purpose, as mentioned before, is not to flip them by offering them for sale, but to simply let others know what is in my library.
Click pictures to go to the assigned pages with full information.
Conan – Red Nails, by Robert E. Howard, edited by Karl Edward Wagner.
BTW, I once interviewed Glenn Lord at his home back around 1992-3 if memory serves. During our conversation he mentioned that when he acquired the rights to REH’s works no one else had showed any interest in doing this, so I gathered from Glenn Lord’s comments that the rights did not cost him much, if anything. Some years after that, when REH had become much more famous and everyone knew that Glenn Lord possessed all the rights, a publisher contacted him and sent him an unsolicited check for $75,000 just to acquire any rights at all to publish some of REH’s works. Mr. Lord, not having solicited the publisher, and not having promised the publisher anything whatsoever or signed anything, and actually not free at the time to transfer any REH rights, Mr. Lord simply kept the check! Nice work if you can get it, I suppose. I heard this direct from Glenn Lord himself at his home. I had approached him with the idea of his writing a review of one of my own novels, I think my Maalstrom novel, but he explained that he was really too busy to read it. Glenn Lord was very friendly and of good humor and I very much enjoyed my brief visit with him. I never saw him again.
Canaveral Press 1962 edition of ERB’s A Fighting Man of Mars, illus. by Mahlon Blaine.
The Seven That’s
What’s the most times you can repeat the same word consecutively in a sentence and still retain meaning? Here’s a sentence with 7 words in a row.
It remains true for all that that that that that that that refers to is not the same that that that that refers to.
Anyone for any more?
Posted by Josef Essberger February 2008
Can anyone explain this to me? Words are my specialty but this is a hard one!
-Glenn
Credit is to. . .
Collectible Books in my Sci-Fi Collection
For some years now I have been collecting popular n sometimes quite rare editions of popular science fiction books, both paperback n hardback. Writers include Edgar Rice Burroughs, H.P. Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard, n many more. My purpose is not to flip them by offering them for sale, but to simply make others aware of what is in my library. In theory, I suppose, my entire library could be purchased, but currently I am more interested in buying than selling.
First item:
1970 Double Edition of A Princess of Mars, illus. by Frank Frazetta. Click to see full page.
Laws of Human Society-Edited
Conclusions I have come to after many years of contemplation:
Fundamental Principle #1: Law of Infinite Hypergamy. The higher the percentage of women in power, the more porous a nation’s borders will be, in order to expand women’s potential mating pool of high status males to an infinite asymptote. Corollary to Law of Infinite Hypergamy: vanishing borders are the clearest sign that one lives in a wholly dominant matriarchy.
Fundamental Principle #2: Law of Inverse Value. The more popular something is, the less it is worth. The Electoral Corollary to the Law of Inverse Value: popular elections will always end up promoting the mediocre, the incompetent, or the undistinguished—and usually all three. Second Corollary to Law of Inverse Value: Dunning Kruger Effect: the less a person knows, the more certain he is that he knows it. Third Corollary to Law of Inverse Value: the less a group of people know, the bigger and louder and more disruptive to society their public protest will be.
Fundamental Principle #3: Law of Derived Elections. if you control a nation’s media, you control its elections, therefore where a nation’s information media are privately owned, its election results will be determined by the owners of its media. “Saving Our Democracy” Corollary to the Law of Derived Elections: Preserving an entrenched regime that is protected by a lack of term limits, requires monopolistic control over most media and the suppression of all media which does not conform.
Fundamental Principle #4: Law of Heretical Speech: Under a state religion, all speech that does not glorify the Deity n praise its Priesthood is by definition heretical speech. Electoral Corollary to Law of Heretical Speech: Since elections are a form of speech, all popular elections are by definition heresy under an entrenched state religion and must be either banned beforehand, or falsified if they occur, or the results reversed by “legal” means if the results are inconvenient to the Priesthood.
Fundamental Principle #5: Law of Democratic Trivialities. Regarding anything one writes, most people, who by definition are of only average IQ, will ignore the important points n focus on criticizing any trivialities they can detect. The Media Corollary to the Law of Trivialities: All media will invariably report from a public statement only what is trivial while ignoring or misrepresenting the statement’s essential points.
I believe these principles are incontrovertible. No evidence has yet appeared that could challenge them.
Curious Things
45 is a Colt, and a short playing plastic record, and a Malt Liquor. And that’s the last time I hope to type ‘and’ when ‘n’ is quicker n easier. If dolts don’t get it, that’s their problem. I’m tired of dumbing down everything for people who can’t read above a 4th grade level.
If my books were to suddenly become popular, I would conclude that I had done something terribly wrong because only low-quality books ever become popular while t best books, n certainly t most intelligently written, almost always sell poorly. Just look at Nietzsche. In today’s collapsing intellectual environment, poor sales is a sign of quality n a virtue.
I’m thinking of making a list of books banned by Amazon n Ingram. There are hundreds, if not thousands. I don’t feel ready to tackle such a huge project.
Three very bad books that sell only because the cultic media constantly promotes them: To Kill A Mockingbird; The Great Gatsby; Things Fall Apart. I have read all three carefully. They are simply garbage.
I might write something about my “Thrice Exceptional Life”: an IQ unrecognized by the school system where I was often smarter n more educated than my perpetually offended high school teachers; virtually disabled as an adult, imagine going on job interviews in a wheelchair like I did; flaming red hair. If those three aren’t profound disabilities, then nothing is. Yet I overcame them all n, in a sense, woke up one day to discover that I had become an entirely different person. No longer red haired, no longer disabled, n no longer stuck in an institution suited only for prison, factory work, or the military.
I have noticed that publishers n literary agencies who yell t loudest about how they want to publish “marginalized” people always have zero “marginalized” people on their own staff, which is usually mostly or entirely NY natives. And if you think such entities don’t push for destroying the borders n don’t actively discriminate against white males every chance they get, boy are you out to lunch. Equus Publishing is boycotted n banned by every publisher association out there. Virtually all publishers n literary agencies, large n small, are active promoters of government propaganda, in particular the State Religion of DEI which I call the PC Cult, n which they call Wokeness as if its true nature isn’t Asleepness.
Have you ever asked yourself why there are hundreds of publishers who advertise themselves as devoted to “women’s fiction” but NOT ONE publisher for “men’s fiction”. Why is that? Partly because much fewer men read fiction. But more because of the active suppression of men’s causes in general by the “cultured thugs” who create the narratives coming out of New York City. Never forget: masculinity is outlawed in modern matriarchal America and men are second class citizens. To promote men’s causes is a crime! That’s why Equus is banned everywhere.
More dumb things Americans have said to me:
“I’m not changing what I do for you or for anyone else.” (cops soon corrected his antisocial bad behavior)
“You have cats living under your house.” No, I have pets who live in my house, not under it. Is anyone really this stupid? Apparently.
Google’s Gemini is inventing fake reviews, all negative, n directed against books by political dissenters. I expect this trend to expand until every right-of-center book, or every book written by a person known to be right-of-center, will immediately attract a collection of negative reviews invented by Google. Things To Come.
There is a strange idea that all languages can be translated. Not true. Most cannot be accurately translated into English, or vice versa. Some have no words at all for abstractions n some languages have no name for numbers beyond 3, only “many”. Some languages have no neuter nouns, like Arabic. It is not possible to remove gender from that language. Why is it that Americans in particular seem unable to acknowledge such facts? I know the answer but few are willing to open their ears.
There is an unfortunate trend among poseur intellectuals to attach meaning to the root of a word. For instance, ‘radical’ at its core means ‘root’. But in everyday discourse it is absurd to use the word ‘radical’ as ‘root’. Radical means extreme bordering on illegal n actually has nothing to do with roots. It’s deceptive to drag out this etymological sleight of hand. ‘Intellectuals’ do it only to puff themselves up so they will look important.
Do time machines have rear-view mirrors?
Much more to say but no more time.
Pronouns For Thee and Me
I can’t help but make public my own pronouns. Keeping in mind that others must now address me by these legally enforceable identity-confirming words, I specify the following pronouns: “Hey You!”; “What the hell?”; “Your aunt said what?”; and “Oh, really?” I have more pronouns but they don’t compare to Jihad Bubba’s carefully selected pronouns. You’ll have to read the book to learn what his pronouns are and the legal trouble he got into because of them. If I mention them here, I might get arrested before you have the chance.
Equus specializes in anti-woke satires including:
Judge Crater Takes A Powder (The Radiated Lesbian Nun, Book 1)
Cross-Dressers From Pluto (The Radiated Lesbian Nun, Book 2)
The Warriors (The Radiated Lesbian Nun, Book 3)
Quantum Marlowe (kind of)
You will never laugh as hard as when you read these laugh riots that mock DEI, Wokeness, and Regressives.
The Traditional Publishing Scam
In former times–meaning antedeluvian–I worked for a small press. I reviewed unsolicited manuscripts, called the slush pile, to locate undiscovered gems for publication and I also did some editing. Not once did the small press publish anything that came over the transom. If they wanted to publish something like a vampire novel, for instance, instead of putting something from the slush pile under contract, they would assign the task of writing the desired mss to one of the staff editors and totally ignore the slush pile. The editor, who usually had a publishing history, would then get to work in his or her spare time and crank out a vampire novel. Nice work if you can get it.
This makes me think of the old structure of “authorship” and the exploitive process of a writer getting published.
First, the writer hunkers down and hammers out an outline for a novel. It’s always a novel, by the way. Keep in mind that everyone–and I mean absolutely everyone–eventually writes a novel, usually about their “amazing” life which no one but their mother will ever read. Case in point: an engineer friend of mine, now deceased, wrote a book on pipelines. He put it on Amazon and to his surprise it sold a hundred copies a month for year after year with zero marketing. “This is way easy,” he said to himself and he wrote a novel and posted it on Amazon too. Zilch. Zero sales. Year after year went by with no sales despite herculean efforts on his part to push the book. And it was not even about his “amazing” life. Today over a million books are “published” each year, most of them fiction or autobiographical, or both, most self-published, and the number is increasing every year. And most are never read by anyone once the writer runs out of friends and family.
That bit of info is just to alert the reader as to the realities of fiction publishing. I don’t call it a marketplace because publishing is not a marketplace, but a monopoly. You can always tell a monopoly because monopolies can afford to fire their customers. Amazon bans books by the hundred–that’s because Amazon functions as a monopoly. The biggest distributor, Ingram, also fires its own customers, routinely putting publishers out of business because Ingram is also a monopoly.
New York publishers function as a monopoly also because they work together to screen out “heretical” writers and ensure that they will all publish the same ideological slant to the same targeted audience. New York publishing companies are mostly owned by multinational megacorps with oodles of advertising dollars which they can use across multiple venues to make sure the books the publishers wish to push on the public conform to their biases and ideological preconceptions. Monopolies can afford to act this way because profit is not their chief motive–pushing their ideology is. This is called ESG.
After completing your outline, you will then create a first draft, which you will be advised by some of the great many ancillary businesses that prey on would-be authors to submit your work to a “beta reader”. Professional readers, as the term suggests, charge money for this service. Usually the writer will skip the “professional” part and contact a friend who is known to write a bit on the side, for instance a diary, and dragoon the reluctant friend into plowing through the first draft. It’s hard to say which is better: the friend who doesn’t want to offend you, or the “professional” who will quickly “correct” your draft into the kind of ideological drivel that cash-paying publishers want.
Then comes editing. Again, some will pay cash for a professional first draft initial editor, as if every joe and his dog don’t know how to compose sixth grade English, while the thrifty writers will dragoon another friend for some kind of barter deal.
Once the writer makes the recommended “corrections”, which are certain to remove any spontaneity the manuscript (mss) formerly possessed, our forlorn, and now perhaps poor-lorn writer, will turn his work over to what’s called a developmental editor. They are even more expensive because they actually look at such items as character development, and analyzing the work for the required 25% intro, 50% body, and 25% resolution portions. As if readers give a flying F for such things. But you’ll be told you have to do these.
Next comes the copy editor. If we don’t yet have enough cooks in the kitchen to completely flatten and obliterate any creativity that remains in this crockpot, the copy editor will entangle you in a ridiculous series of nose-heightened “writers’ style manuals” that will dictate where you must put your Oxford commas, and apostrophes, and hyphens while catching misspelled words, as if Word won’t already do that.
And we’re still not done. Next in line is the professional editor who will rapidly transform your once charming story into a dreary, predictable, boring tale devoid of any style at all.
The predators, in fact, will keep coming as long as your bank account holds out: the format editor, more beta readers, more reviews by copy and characterization editors, etc.
Whew. Finally, after all has been lost, it’s time to submit your work to an agent. Don’t ask the silent questions like, for example, is the agent married to a conglomerate publisher, which in effect means the publisher will double-dip into your royalties. These swindles are yet another dirty secret of New York publishing. Agents too operate effectively as a monopoly, in fact are part of the NY publishing monopoly, acting as recruiters for their very selective recruitment of writers in exchange for kickbacks from the orgs they pretend to “negotiate” with.
If your mss is too long, the agent may reject it and reject you. If your mss is very short, meaning no longer than a few scribbles on a page, then your agent might be willing to market it to a magazine. If medium length, the agent might be willing to market it to a select book publisher. But if your mss is in-between in length, then it’s a novella, and the agent will reject it and you because no one publishes novellas anymore because monopolies can publish whatever they like and they don’t like novellas.
But to give agents their due, they actually sometimes are honest and have a difficult job. This is because NY publishers today have not only a litmus test which will automatically exclude a writer’s work, but now excludes writers themselves, sight unseen, and work unread, specifically white males.
Case two in point: Equus Publishing is open to msss (how often is that spelled?) by writers. I receive a steady stream of submissions, sometimes with explanations of why they have come to Equus instead of to an agented NY publisher. A recent writer told me that his agent helped him place several books with NY publishers and they have all sold well, even reviewed by the NY Times Book Review (one of the conglomerate venues I mentioned that NY publishers use to promote their chosen ideologically favored books, much like the Oscars and just as honest). But despite this success, he suddenly has a problem: his agent is firing him. Why? Because the NY publishing monopoly is no longer accepting manuscripts from white males. So she can no longer place any more books by him no matter how creative and brilliant his books are.
So it’s no longer enough to merely comply with the octopus-like PC Cult, but white males are now heretics by definition and can no longer publish, no matter the quality of what they write. If you are a white male, you have been or will soon be fired and your msss rejected, both sight unseen, and no agent will represent you.
Let’s say you do have a sizable dose of melanin, or you feel like a 13 year old girl today although you are in fact a 56 year old man. Thus you qualify to bypass the ideological screening. But if you are still not part of the in-crowd, there will be no $ up front, no marketing, perhaps misspelled words on the cover of your book (that happened to me), and you will have to resign yourself to criss-crossing the country doing all the marketing yourself at your own expense, because advance fees only go to former presidents or select members of the chosen few. The more books you sell, the deeper in debt you will go.
This whole traditional publishing framework works like this because it is driven by advertising. IOW, the reading audience does not buy books, rather books are sold to them. The monopolies and their conglomerates know that because they have the dollars and the advertising venues, they can sell whatever they wish to the public and the public will buy it so long as it’s not written above a sixth grade level. It is not a market, but a cash cow of Manchurian Candidates, a public so conditioned that the moneyed publishers know in advance that the public will buy whatever the publishers choose to sell, backed up by a slew of “reviewers” owned lock-stock by the same conglomerates, therefore would not dare write something negative about the stream of trash that comes from NY publishers.
BUT THEN CAME THE INTERNET and all of the above is crumbling. Now anyone can set up his own website and promote his own books and market using AI, audio , and videos. It is no longer necessary for a writer to submit his work to ANY publisher, including Equus Publishing. Of course, I am still happy to assist talented writers in any way I can, and there is still the issue of de-conditioning the public at large, which is something like deprogramming a religious believer, and making them aware that the best books are no longer being produced by the NY publishing monopoly, but are to be found in small independent outfits like Equus.
AI comments
The developments of AI are disturbing. How can a democratic process work if everything one sees and hears is fake propaganda? ChatGPT has already been tagged as having a political slant that is readily identifiable and now Google Gemini portrays whites as blacks, but never blacks as whites. For those who think this kind of falsification is good, I suppose it presents no problem.
I wonder how law schools will handle this? In law school there are right answers and wrong answers which lends itself to AI. Law students must write many papers investing a huge amount of time when time is severely limited. Suddenly students can go to the head of the class having done no research. Of course that would become evident at exam time.
I didn’t go to law school to practice law but merely for the knowledge. Back then it was affordable and I paid cash all the way through. But today most lawyers owe huge $. A foolish investment IMO since the market is glutted with unemployed lawyers who can already be hired for spare change. I see even more lawyers becoming unemployed once AI gets better. Maybe before long one can consult a lawyer online that is completely AI. OTOH maybe that would be a good thing since IMHO 90% of the lawyers out there are completely superfluous. Even immigration law, which had been absorbing the excess, is now proving a desert for the legions of unemployed counselors as people simply walk across and squat.
I have no fear that any writing of mine can be replicated by an AI bot. I use language in innovative ways and my books have complex and carefully weighed plots with surprise endings. Of course, that means my books will never be bestsellers since the biggest sellers on Amazon, today’s virtual publishing monopoly, are mostly AI products. It’s too bad the general public can’t tell genuine creativity from machine production.
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