So then, friends, you know the rules.
The first rule is that you have come to expect a trailer of some sort, in which something burns. Thus far it has been a couch, a field, a truck, a boat, and an office. If you want to find out what it is this year, you will just need to click the arrow below.
Here is the second rule. Over the course of November, we simply publish the unvarnished truth. The usual custom around here during the rest of the year is to publish the truth also, obviously, but with the guardrails up. We wouldn’t want anyone to believe that we were thinking untoward thoughts, and so whenever I write something that all the clever people might think is outrageous, I hasten to add a paragraph that says something additional like, “please don’t make the mistake of taking from this the idea that I think that hobbits are evil.” Something like that. But over the years, we discovered that our adversaries try to pretend that these qualifications do not exist, and that I never wrote them, and so we decided to give them all a month in which their pretended ignorance was not culpable. It is still culpable in the other eleven though.
And the third rule is that we work very hard to give away a lot of content. The NQN posts will be each Monday and Wednesday, and each post will conclude with links to free books and stuff. To date, Canon Press has given away over 150K units of e-books, and it is something we love to do. This doesn’t count all the free books I give away from my little Mablog shop here. Please take advantage of this. Scads of stuff will be going out the door.
Also this year there will be a live stream NQN show, each Wednesday afternoon at 4:30 Pacific. You won’t want to miss that. Certainly not.