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My short stories individually don't make me very much money ($0.35/copy is my royalty), but my collection does make me a little bit ($2.24 or so per copy). If I were you, I'd bundle the shorter works and even multiple longer works. William Meikle, who I correspond with occasionally on...

The L.A. riots were noted for attacks by on rioters on Korean-owned small businesses and there were knock-on riots elsewhere in the country. (My class trip to Zoo Atlanta got canceled and I remember a classmate who had a father I later found out was kind of racist discoursing on black people...

It seems more likely to me that Solomon would try the peaceful route first and the sword if that doesn't work. The Law has various mandates about making war more humane, like not destroying olive trees and regulating the practice of taking women prisoners as concubines in such a way to...

That's a POD right there. Britain is a bigger ass about it, Mitterrand and Kohl team up to tell Britain to piss off, and as a result, Britain is permanently alienated from Europe?

Well, you could have Britain and France sustain the GDR against its own people out of irrational post-WWII Germanophobia, threaten to respond to reunification attempts with military invasion, etc.

Hmm...could Salazar think that Franco's Spain might attack Portugal? Alternatively, Franco leading the Nationalists wasn't a given. Some other Nationalist leader might give Salazar the willies in a way that Franco didn't OTL.

What if Operation Gladio isn't enough? I can't imagine NATO sending in tanks the way the Soviets would. NATO is not the Warsaw PAct.

Is Hitler capable of stopping it, especially early on in his regime? Of course, you do raise a good point. Hitler will support Franco and the Spanish Civil War might turn into an intra-fascist proxy war. If Hitler wants to be particularly aggressive, he could demonstrate against Austria again...

Given how Portugal wasn't a fan of the Spanish Republic IIRC, I could imagine "boots on the ground" being too far for them as well. If both governments side with the Republic for whatever reason (Mussolini because Franco is allied to Hitler, Portugal for ???) and actually send troops, I'm...

I like Magnum's general scenario, although Portugal seems to be a bridge too far. Making some kind of "legitimate" Spanish government in a culturally/geographically distinct area with Spain's overseas colonies into a puppet state seems somewhat doable if Italy is playing Iran to the Republican...

I wouldn't want to be one of the stranded Marines. IIRC they had it bad OTL and this is worse.

I thought that was why the clerics opposed the Shah--his land reform undermined the clerics' power by taking away their lands.

There's some truth to that--I haven't been promoting my SW page on my Twitter feed as I have some of my Amazon projects. (That said, I don't promote the Amazon stuff that much either. One does not want to be obnoxious.) However, I tweet the Smashwords "Beasts of the Bosporus" link and pulp...

I've got a bunch of (short) titles available on both Amazon and Smashwords. Our very own Psychomeltdown has done most of the covers. Some of it is AH (like "Coil Gun" and "Palma," set in a TL this board inspired), "Beast" is secret history, and the rest is standard SF/F/H. Smashwords has been...

A moratorium on executions is a tactical/PR maneuver, not a fundamental change to who Khomeini is.

Even if the U.S. manages to get its hands on California somehow, a big Mexican "bulge" in the Four Corners area could have interesting consequences. For starters, given how little Mexico developed its own northern OTL possessions until relatively recently historically speaking, I imagine...

Bargaining chip seems most likely, especially early on.

About the white bosses and abused slaves, most slaves were owned by the richest slave-owners even though most slave owners owned few slaves. And those were the ones worked hardest and with the least food because the cotton economy was so debt-driven. Read RIVER OF DARK DREAMS about the...

Mortal Kombat did pretty well. No or better Street Fighter or Mario movies would help.

Did it work in Ulster?