People are asking me how they can get the word out about the audio books. A great question. The answer is:

1. Get Book One free by becoming an Audible subscriber starting with that book. Here’s the link to the Audible page for Book One.  If you do this and email me (glentate123 AT gmail.com) I will send you a signed book mark.  How does subscribing to Audible with Book One help get the message out? Audible (which is an Amazon company) knows that if people subscribe to Audible because of a book that the book is hot and motivating people to action. The Audible/Amazon computers start to promote that hot book with the “You Might Also Like” stuff.  Trust me, subscribing because of a particular book means thousands of more people will see the book on their computer screens. It’s the best way to get the message out.

2. Think of people you know who will listen to audio book instead of reading. Some people are listeners and others are readers. Some people drive a lot and audio books are great for them.

3.  Do a review of the books on Audible or Amazon.  Same thing with the Audible/Amazon computers: they know that a book is hot if people are reviewing it.

4.  Get the Whispersync version on Kindle. This is cool: If you have the Kindle version of a book, you can upgrade to the audio book version for only a couple of bucks. This, too, tells the Audible/Amazon computers that a book is hot and thousands of “You May Also Like” suggestions follow.

5. Forums! Get on forums and post a thread about the books and the audio books in particular. This is huge.

6.  Facebook post.  Put up a post about the audio books. You can link to this blog post with all the details: https://299days.com/audio-books-you-can-pre-order-now/

7. Facebook share. Share posts on Facebook about the audio books.

8.  Sign up for the free bonus chapters by email. You can do that on the home page of 299days.com. You’ll get occasional updates on the books, including the audio books, from these emails. You also get the really cool free bonus chapters emailed to you. For free.

9.  Email and Facebook message your friends about the audio books. You can include the link with the details (https://299days.com/audio-books-you-can-pre-order-now/).

10. Tell friends about the books and that they’re out now on audio book!

Thanks everyone. You are making 299 Days more than a book – it’s a message to get prepared.

Wahoo! Book Nine was released on July 31.

Here’s the link to Amazon for it.

This book ends the series in a way (but not really) with the final battle in Olympia and the beginnings of the Rebuilding. The cover of the book, which is one of my favorites, says it all: a new flag flies over the capitol.

Please review Book Nine (and all the books) on Amazon. Reviews are extremely, extremely important. The number of reviews tells the Amazon algorithm that a book is a good one to list as an “You May Also Like” selection when someone is looking at similar books. This is huge, huge, huge to getting the message out about prepping and 299 Days.

Also, please share this link on your Facebook page and encourage your friends to read the series. They’ll thank you later.

Speaking of thanks, let me thank you for reading the series. I am always humbled and amazed by you guys. Thank you, thank you, thank you. – “Glen”

As you know, tens of thousands of illegals are streaming into the US right now.  We are told that many of them are children and some of them are hungry and have nasty, but treatable, conditions like scabies and lice.

Glenn Beck recently made huge waves by announcing that he would organize a relief effort and provide humanitarian support to the illegals, mostly aiming to help the children on the border.  This made a lot of Patriots mad. Including me.

I’m a Christian first and a Patriot second, so I stopped to think how a Christian, in my opinion, should approach this.

Christians should be guided by the parable of the Good Samaritan in the Bible. In these passages, a Jewish man is beaten by robbers and left for dead on the roadside.  A rabbi and a supposedly religious man pass the man by but neither stops to help him. Finally, a Samaritan helps the man.  This was remarkable because the Samaritans and Jews had a long history of battles and hated each other.  The Samaritan gives first aid and then transports the man to an inn. He pays for a few days of the man’s stay – for as long as it takes him to recover. That’s the key.

Does the example of the Good Samaritan mean Christians should help the illegals?

In my opinion, yes, but only until they are healthy enough to return.  Like the Good Samaritan, I believe we should offer temporary aid to anyone who needs it to allow them to recover.  The Good Samaritan paid for a few days of the man’s stay at the inn, enough to let him recover.  The analogy here would be to try to treat the medical conditions of the illegals so they are healthy enough to return to their home countries. This would be fulfilling our Christian duty, in my opinion.

It’s like when someone runs out of gas and is stuck on the side of the road.  It makes sense to help them by giving them a gallon of gas so they can get to a gas station and then be on their way.  That’s giving them the temporary help they need to, in effect, recover.  But it doesn’t make sense to give them your credit card and tell them to buy all the gas they need for the rest of their life.

By letting illegals into the US, we are effectively giving them all the welfare they need for the rest of their lives.  I know that many illegals work hard and aren’t on welfare, but a good number of them are.  Once those kids are in the US, most of them will be on welfare for at least a while, and maybe a long time.  It’s a lot like giving them having our credit cards to buy all the gas they want for the rest of their lives.

And that’s way more than the Good Samaritan did.