If you’re reading this, you probably should be helping in the kitchen or spending time with family & friends instead.

In case you’re looking for a longer read, you should check out my column on Social Matter about the war after Thanksgiving.

Also in the news is that Sarah Perry’s book, Every Cradle is a Grave, comes out tomorrow in paperback. Last month, she also published a paper on the history of fertility transitions.

If you haven’t done so already, before you run out of money buying presents on Black Friday, donate to Pax Dickinson’s project to expose corruption in American journalism.

I had planned to turn these three posts addressing each section of the neoreactionary trike into a $0.99 essay to put up on Amazon with a little extra material.

When I actually got to working at it, it blew up into something quite a bit longer with some more meat to it. It’s shaping up into a short eBook of about 20-35k words on the same topic, but substantially expanded into a lot of areas that I’ve wanted to cover but haven’t had the opportunity to.

The writing is also a bit higher quality than most of what I put up on blogs. It started off as a little bit too inside-baseball, but now that it has more supporting material, it’s become more accessible and probably more interesting to a broader audience.

If you already like my work, you will probably also like the book. If you want me to continue devoting time & effort to writing of this nature, a good way to put that desire into action will be to buy it and to encourage your friends to buy it. Every buck that I make off the book will go towards more time & effort towards future projects of that nature. I have a longer book project that I put on ice more than six months ago just because the volume of the research that it required took more time than I had to allocate to it.

My main goal in working on this project is to help to make a market for other authors in our space and to make my existing readers happier than I can by just blogging. Talking about fighting a culture war is just talk without producing more quality products to that end.

I should have a release data announced some time in the next couple weeks, and will be sending out advance copies for reviews. Send me an e-mail if you’re interested.

If you are too broke to buy it, but have a blog or a free account on Amazon, a timely review would be worth more to me than the money, whether or not it’s positive.

A lot of new writers have come into the dark enlightenment scene over the last six months, but the same clusters of people tend to be the ones passing the links around.

If you have something good that you want to promote, here are some ways that you can get traffic from our readers:

1. Submit an article to Social Matter or Theden
2. Tweet at me
3. E-mail me
4. Submit a link to /r/darkenlightenment on reddit

Alternatively, you can leave high quality comments on blogs like Outside In and Jim. More Right also sometimes hosts open threads.

If you have a book that you’d like me to review, send me a review copy in .epub or .mobi format to my e-mail address in advance of the release with a one paragraph synopsis of the book and details about where people can buy or pre-order it.