A Boxing Day Update

What to expect in the New Year

I could write some sweary history story about Boxing Day, but I don’t wanna. Instead, I’m going to make a quick note about what to expect from this Substack for the next few months.

You may have noticed that over the past couple of months there has been a free On This Day in History Shit Went Down story posted every day. But they weren’t new stories. They were either from Volume 1 or Volume 2 of the books of the same name. I published them here because Nov-Dec is when half my book sales are, and I wanted to take advantage of this captive audience to promote them, but I was mired in edits for a new book and didn’t have time to be writing all new stories.

Anyway, it worked. Sales were fucking amazing and everywhere ran out of stock in November and my publisher had to do two massive print runs to keep up with demand. If you ordered a copy of Volume 1, I hope it arrived on time.

Now that Christmas is past, I’m going to considerably back off on hitting your inbox.

I recently sent in the latest round of edits on my next magnum opus book titled Greedy Sexist Religious Bigots: A History of Humanity, and I need a fucking break before I dive back into writing new free history stories. I will occasionally send out older On This Day pieces, and when I’m suitably recovered I will also write up new stuff.

I do consistently post for paid subscribers; I never back off on that because, duh, they fucking pay me. You can check that shit out with a free trial:

And if Santa or Krampus or whoeverthefuck didn’t bring you the Sweary History books you wanted, but you got a gift card from Amazon or B&N or some shit, here is the link.