{"id":2973,"date":"2014-12-03T21:03:22","date_gmt":"2014-12-04T01:03:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=2973"},"modified":"2014-12-03T21:03:22","modified_gmt":"2014-12-04T01:03:22","slug":"commercial-break","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/commercial-break\/","title":{"rendered":"COMMERCIAL BREAK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We pause for a brief commercial announcement.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>An attorney friend wrote me this morning to say, <em>\u201c\u2026 been following your blog, great stuff.\u00a0 Forgive my crass, sniveling, pond-scum lawyer attitude\u00a0<strong>BUT<\/strong>, you ought to be plugging Deadly Force in the blog to boost sales \u2026\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Which does, frankly, make sense.\u00a0 My new book <strong>\u201cDeadly Force: Understanding Your Right to Self-Defense,\u201d<\/strong> just came out.\u00a0 So far, according to Amazon, it\u2019s doing well, and listed as their best-seller in its category.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Deadly-Force-Understanding-Right-Defense\/dp\/1440240612\/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1417654762&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=massad+ayoob\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2974\" src=\"http:\/\/backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Deadly_Force.jpg\" alt=\"Deadly_Force\" width=\"450\" height=\"167\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Deadly_Force.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Deadly_Force-300x111.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Deadly_Force-768x285.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I grovel in gratitude to my beautiful and long-suffering editor, Corrina Peterson, who managed to get it out in time for Christmas.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Gun-Safety-Home-Massad-Ayoob-ebook\/dp\/B00IPSCMCS\/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1417654145&amp;sr=8-6&amp;keywords=massad+ayoob\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-2977\" src=\"http:\/\/backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/SafetyWeb-197x300.jpg\" alt=\"SafetyWeb\" width=\"132\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a>It\u2019s actually my third book this year, all from the same publisher (FW Media, the Gun Digest folks).\u00a0 The earlier two are \u201cGun Safety in the Home\u201d and \u201cGun Digest Book of SIG-Sauer,\u201d second edition.<\/p>\n<p>One more class to finish this week and another mid-month, and the old guy here is gonna kick back for Christmas.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Digest-Book-SIG-Sauer-Massad-Ayoob-ebook\/dp\/B00NQF0JJS\/ref=sr_1_16?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1417654145&amp;sr=8-16&amp;keywords=massad+ayoob\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-2975\" src=\"http:\/\/backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/SIGbookWeb-227x300.jpg\" alt=\"SIGbookWeb\" width=\"152\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/SIGbookWeb-227x300.jpg 227w, https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/SIGbookWeb.jpg 758w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 152px) 100vw, 152px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And if anyone says, \u201cOMG, you self-promoting SOB,\u201d well, I guess I can honestly reply, \u201cI did it on the advice of a lawyer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We pause for a brief commercial announcement. 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